Have you ever felt pressured to be someone you're not? Pressure to look a certain way, act a certain way, or do certain things? I wrote a post about peer pressure last month, and you can check it out here. But today, I'm not going to necessarily be talking about peer pressure. I'm going to be talking about being yourself, and about taking off your mask. Maybe you wear a figurative mask because you don't think people like the real you. Or maybe it's because you want to be accepted into a certain group and they won't accept you the way you are. So you put on this facade, or mask, so that no one knows the real you. You think, "No one can see through me. Everyone is believing this lie that I'm living." Oh yeah, that too. If you're pretending to be someone you're not, you're living a lie. A big, fat lie. But even if you manage to fool everyone around you, you could never fool God. He knows every single little thing about you. Psalm 139:1 says [Lord, you have examined me and know all about me.] So according to this scripture, God sees right through your fake facade. There is absolutely no point in putting on a fake front to get others to like or accept you. If you have to change who you are to be accepted by a certain group, friend, or guy, then they are not the right people for you. You don't want to get into a group that only accepts you because of who you pretend to be. You want friends and a boyfriend who will truly love and accept you for who you really are, not for your mask. Do not try to change the creation that God made to try to fit in or be liked by people. If they don't like you for who you are, then that's their loss. And you definitely don't have to change who you are for God to accept you. Yes, we're all sinners who don't deserve God's love or acceptance, but as I showed you above, God already knows everything about you. He created you, He created your personality, He created your looks, He created everything about you. If He created you, He'll accept you. Your parents love you for who you are. Your pastor and your youth pastor love you for who you are. Your friends will love you for who you are if they're true friends. When you hear that little voice in your head saying "Hey, you're not good enough. You have to change who you are for people to love and accept you. No one could ever like the real you." That is the devil himself. When you hear him talking to you like that, turn around and put him in his place. Don't listen to him. Don't listen to anyone else who says you have to change who you are. Just be the real you.
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