Never judge a book by its cover. You are not, you are not what you’ve been labeled. You are not what you label yourself. You are of God, little children. I want you to turn to John 17. And if you go over to John 17?while you’re doing that – a couple days ago I had this huge discussion with my daughters, and we were talking about different people and how to impact their lives, and what would you do to impact their lives? And one of my daughters piped up and said, ”Mom, why do you do that all the time? Why do you give into people that don’t appear like they need it, or don’t appear like they’re paying any attention? Why do you do for people who make fun of you? You seem to go out for people who are like the ones who always hurt our family, or the one who mocks our family. You seem to go after those people.
And she said, “You know, Mom, it’s even weird because sometimes you know they’re making fun of you. You know they’re using you; you know they’re making a fool of you.”
I said, “Bingo. Because God said He would use the things that the world calls foolish to confound the wise.” And I said, “Olivia, let me tell you what it is. It’s called obedience.”
When God lays people on your heart, you have two choices: you can look at their labels, look at what they say to you, what they say about you, what somebody else says about them. My kids have been warned about more people under the sun. And then I look back and say, “Do you know many people have been warned about my kids?”
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