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Get REAL!
'MAKE A CAREFUL EXPLORATION OF WHO YOU ARE...THEN SINK YOURSELF INTO THAT.' GALATIANS 6:4
Are you living as God wanted, or are you struggling to live up to other people's expectations? What would happen if you just dropped your mask and got real?
There's a children's story called 'The Velvet Rabbit' that has a classic message for each of us. In a conversation between a new toy rabbit and a tatty old leather horse. Rabbit asks, 'What's real? Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?' 'Real isn't how you're made,' replied Horse, 'It's a thing that happens to you when a child really loves you.' 'Does it hurt?' asked the Velvet Rabbit. 'Sometimes,' said Horse. 'But when you're real you don't mind.' 'Does it happen all at once?' he asked. 'It doesn't' said Horse, 'It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't often happen to people who break easily, have sharp edges, or have to be carefully kept. Generally by the time you're real most of your hair has been loved off, your eyes drop out, you get loose in the joints and very flabby. But these things don't matter because once you're real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.'
King David said, 'You made my whole being...in an amazing...way' (Psalms139:13-14 NCV). Becoming real means accepting yourself and being who you were made to be whether that's physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Unless you understand who you are - who God made you, you'll constantly feel like a let-down and spend your life trying to please others - trying to be something or someone else. Let God show you today who he made you.
written by Bob Gass
'MAKE A CAREFUL EXPLORATION OF WHO YOU ARE...THEN SINK YOURSELF INTO THAT.' GALATIANS 6:4
Are you living as God wanted, or are you struggling to live up to other people's expectations? What would happen if you just dropped your mask and got real?
There's a children's story called 'The Velvet Rabbit' that has a classic message for each of us. In a conversation between a new toy rabbit and a tatty old leather horse. Rabbit asks, 'What's real? Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?' 'Real isn't how you're made,' replied Horse, 'It's a thing that happens to you when a child really loves you.' 'Does it hurt?' asked the Velvet Rabbit. 'Sometimes,' said Horse. 'But when you're real you don't mind.' 'Does it happen all at once?' he asked. 'It doesn't' said Horse, 'It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't often happen to people who break easily, have sharp edges, or have to be carefully kept. Generally by the time you're real most of your hair has been loved off, your eyes drop out, you get loose in the joints and very flabby. But these things don't matter because once you're real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.'
King David said, 'You made my whole being...in an amazing...way' (Psalms139:13-14 NCV). Becoming real means accepting yourself and being who you were made to be whether that's physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Unless you understand who you are - who God made you, you'll constantly feel like a let-down and spend your life trying to please others - trying to be something or someone else. Let God show you today who he made you.
written by Bob Gass
