{"id":608,"date":"2009-06-22T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2009-06-22T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T19:43:00","slug":"jesus-requires-no-photo-copys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Requires No Photo Copys"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Reading a few friends blogs, talking to my family, talking to my husband… all are so important to me and all are so diverse in their Christianity. I was stressed today. Stressed that I haven’t been shining a light like theirs… or that is how I was seeing it…<\/p>\n

My thoughts where jolting about like the following ‘ what do my friends want me to look like in Christ, and why am I not like that? what does my family expect of me in Christ and why am I not just like them, since we are related? what does my man expect of me, because aren’t we one?’<\/p>\n

I have been feeling like a Spiritual failure. Does that make any sense? Sorry if it doesn’t… So I listened to my own thoughts long enough. I went to call my husband for some encouragement and guidance.<\/p>\n

As soon as I picked up the phone I felt the Lord say ‘What about what I want you to look like, who I want to make you, how I see you and how I plan to do a work in you?’ It came so softly that I continued to dial Garnets work number and we chatted about it all.<\/p>\n

I told him how I felt like I was letting everyone down. He pointed out it was a mistake to try to look like others. We aren’t all the hand or the eye in the body of Christ… I hadn’t even realised I was doing that till he mentioned it.<\/p>\n

He then said something near the end that made me tear up… ‘What about what Jesus wants you to look like?’<\/p>\n

Forget others spiritual expectations for me… truth is if I just focus on Christ’s view of me I will be the real me in Jesus and I will not be able to contain the shining LIGHT.<\/p>\n

Today, this very minute, I am very excited to focus on what Christ wants me to be!<\/p>\n

TTFN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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