Well hello all you lads and lasses. As college grows near for me, and maybe has started for most of the people reading this I just have been really starting to dig into the core things that I want to bring with me in college and to never let go of. My faith is on the top of that list. This post is going to be about never changing who you are for what others want you to be.
Lately with college lurking, I have been just getting excited and anticipating all that is going to happen as well as just worrying, which I think is normal. I am going to be living on my own in a whole new enviroment that is different than what I have been brought up. I mean its an exciting time. It's just the unknown that is totally sketching me out. Not having my friends that I have gotten so close to and my family right there to talk to in person is going to be weird for awhile. In this place, I may feel like I need to change to fit-in and stray away from myself.
It doesn't have to be that way though. I don't need to change who I am to fit in because if I have to do that, if I have to be someone that I am not just to be friends with people, then are they really my friends? If they don't like me for being me, then that is their problem. I am loved and accepted for who I am by the only person that only really matters in our lives. That person is God.
Why live for people who want you to change what you believe and go against yourself, when you can live for God who wants you to be you and loves you eternally for it. He is the only person whose opinion matters.
"Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind."
- Romans 12:2
That verse from Romans pretty much sums up what I am totally talking about with this post. It tells us in the bible to not follow the crowd and change who we are for anybody. The only person who we should listen to is the Lord because humanly opinions are squashed and blown to smithereens by his mercy and love and grace. Don't fall into the pattern and sucked into all the bad things the crowd might tempt you to do because the Lord calls for us to be DIFFERENT and to be the action to his words.
I am not going to change for anybody. Can you do the same?
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