{"id":4553,"date":"2013-10-07T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccsouthbay.org\/?p=4553"},"modified":"2024-03-26T22:12:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T22:12:17","slug":"stop-living-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccsouthbay.org\/stop-living-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Stop Living for the Approval of Others Once and For All"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.\u201d – Galatians 1:10<\/strong><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Growing up my life was consumed with the opinions and approval of others. \"\"<\/p>\n

I would wear different masks in hopes of fitting into different crowds and would bend over backwards trying to fit in with my peers.<\/p>\n

I would try to conform myself into society\u2019s image but I ended up losing myself along the way.<\/p>\n

I came to a point in my life where I was trying so hard to look and act like everyone else that I had no idea who \u201cI” really was.<\/p>\n

When I came to Christ and started reading the Word of God, something amazing started to happen. Little by little, one day at a time, I discovered that a transformation process had begun deep down in the depths of my heart.<\/p>\n

God Almighty Himself started to mold me, sculpt me and shape me not into the world\u2019s image, brothers and sisters, but into His very own.<\/p>\n

How to Stop Wanting Approval From Others<\/h2>\n

As sons and daughters of the most High King we need to stop living our lives for the approval and acceptance of other people.<\/p>\n

Our number one priority in life should be to please God and allow Him free reign in transforming us into who He has predestined us to be.<\/p>\n

Unlike the unrealistic expectations the world places on you, the Lord your God has saved you, redeemed you, unconditionally loves you, and accepts you just the way you are.<\/p>\n

We are loved by our Father in heaven so much that He sent His Son Jesus Christ to die on the cross in our place, and there is no greater love than that.<\/p>\n

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He knows the plans He has for our lives, “Plans to\u00a0prosper\u00a0us and not to harm us, plans to give us a hope and future.” <\/em>(See John 15:13<\/a>\/ Jer. 29:11<\/a>).<\/p>\n

You were not born by mere chance or coincidence, brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n

Even if your birth was not planned by your parents, God Almighty, the creator of all the heavens and the earth, had a divine plan for breathing the breath of life into you.<\/p>\n

Feeling Like You’re Not Good Enough?<\/h2>\n

The world will tell you\u2019re not good enough. They will try to make you feel like an outcast, unaccepted, and unable to fit in.<\/p>\n

They will say you are not skinny enough; not pretty enough; not wealthy or affluent enough, and not smart enough.<\/p>\n

But, these are all lies from the pit of hell! <\/strong><\/p>\n

The world may have created these \u201csocial standards\u201d and cookie cutter molds expecting you to conform to but let me tell you something.<\/p>\n

Your worth and your value to God are not based on your physical, social or intellectual attributes.<\/p>\n

God Almighty has made us in His image so our value, worth, and identity are found solely in Him.<\/p>\n

The world may judge you on the outside, but God’s focus is what\u2019s going on your inside.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Tweet<\/a>
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