So you say that you weren't the same as the other kids in school. Your clothes fit a little different than some of the other kids clothes fit them because they were "hand-me-downs". You wasn't the top athlete or perhaps you weren't athletic at all. Perhaps you never achieved the grades to be an Honor Student or never scored good enough to even once make the Honor Roll. You wasn't popular. You weren't accepted. You couldn't afford what others have and you doubt that you ever will.
Well, if anyone feels like this or has felt like this, let me tell you...YOUR PLACE IN SOCIETY HAS ABSOLUTELY NO BEARING AT ALL ON YOUR PLACE IN THE KINGDOM!
Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 1:27-29, "But God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things - and the things that are not - to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before Him."
God uses the weakest, poorest, most unknown, and ill-placed people to accomplish great things in His Kingdom. He does this so that the world will clearly see that it is His greatness, His grace, His power, and His goodness that brings all of these things about.
As Kingdom People, we should use our influence as Christians to be the arbiters of what is right and true and fair and good. We should be the hands and feet of Jesus in the world. We must be the ones who give. We must be the ones who give and not take. We must be the ones who serve, not demand. We must be the ones who bring freedom, not bondage.
Some in this world who have means (position, reputation, finance, prestige and social status)...and place everything that they are into these things (worshipping worldly things), serve a model that calls them to preserve their existence.
BUT Jesus says, "For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done." (Matthew 16:25-27 NIV)
Notice the last few words of Jesus in this Scripture, "He will reward each person according to what they have done"...NOT for what they have (possessions).
IT'S OK TO BE DIFFERENT...in this life, in this time and in this world. You must know that God doesn't view you lessor than someone else, He wants to give you the Kingdom!
"Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him?" (James 2:5 NIV)
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