Christian Living

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I have observed that people are usually quick to sum up a person’s future based on their present and or past circumstances and usually they are wrong as time very often proves. Therefore, if you find that people underestimate you and your abilities, don’t let it bother you as no one knows you or what you’re capable of as much as they would like to think they do.
Your parents gave birth to you no doubt, but even they do not know you. Look at it from this angle, you were created and put on the earth for a purpose but your parents are completely ignorant of it unless they ask the God who made you (truth be told, they are probably even ignorant of the reason they are here). This is why many parents push their children in a direction that has nothing to do with their purpose for being on earth. So, if your parents don’t how the reason for your being how can they claim to know you? And if they don’t know you and are still in the process of knowing you who else can claim to know you?
Therefore, when someone puts a label on you, refuse to wear it (the label is not for you, it is for the person he thinks you are). When someone tries to place limitations on you by telling you what you can or cannot achieve and how far they think you can go, refuse it; remember they don’t know enough about you to make that judgement.
When David showed up to fight Goliath, Saul the king said to him, “you are not able to go out against him because you are only a youth and he has been a warrior from his youth.” (Paraphrased) Saul said that because he didn’t know enough about David, he didn’t know that the young lad (David) had fought and killed a lion and a bear.
A few years ago I met a young man who owned a successful importing / exporting business named McCarthy, Green & Curley. I was curious to know why he had named his business thus so I asked and his reply was not what I expected to hear. He said, “They are the names of my professors who told me I would not amount to anything in life.” Obviously, McCarthy, Green and Curley were wrong.
Albert Einstein was called dull by one teacher and another told him he would not amount to anything in life, today we celebrate the life of Albert Einstein but no one knows the names of those two teachers, they died without recognition.
David’s father did not think he would amount to anything much, other than a keeper of the sheep, he certainly didn’t see a king when he looked at David because when it was time to parade his sons before Samuel to the end that one would be chosen as king, he did not think to invite David. As a matter of fact he completely forgot David until those he hoped would make it did not sail through and Samuel asked, “Are these all your children?” (Paraphrased) Eventually, the one he thought could not be king became king.
So, the next time someone tries to tell you what you can or cannot do or what you can or cannot be, don’t take it to heart, understand that they simply do not know you, they only think they do.

Eturuvie Erebor.

Woman Empowered by Inspiration.

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