“Our Daily Bread” http://odb.org/
The Daily Devotions of Greg Laurie http://www.harvest.org/devotional
Interesting to listen to this link about us made in the image of God !! https://www.gotquestions.org/let-Us-make-man-in-Our-image.html
Written by Gabrielle Guthrie for “See, there’s this thing called biology…~insanitybytes” @ https://insanitybytes2.wordpress.com/
Original post found @ https://insanitybytes2.wordpress.com/2024/08/25/you-are-important/
You Are Important…
25SundayAug 2024
Posted by insanitybytes22 in Uncategorized
Tags blogging, faith, humor, insanitybytes, love, opinion
TS Eliot said in part, “Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.” I think that’s very true! It might even be more than half the harm.
Here’s what makes the whole thing so maddening. You already are important, but feeling that way is an inside job. People tend to look for a sense of significance or purpose through sources outside of themselves and it just can’t be found there. To make it worse, the world likes to tear people down because that tends to help them feel important, at least for a few seconds. So, the more you go looking for that feeling of importance and purpose externally, the more frustrated, depressed, and unimportant you are going to feel.
A lot of famous people, like those performing to adoring crowds and surrounded by people, actually paid to make them feel important, often become very depressed and start self-medicating with drugs. Something that frustrates me is how much good music we’ve lost over the years. When I look back at all the icons and superstars an astounding number of them died way too young and often from addiction. Here you got genuine talent, wealth, fame, and adoring crowds and yet it still did not satisfy the soul, it didn’t give them those feelings of importance.
Nobody who feels as if they are the apple of their Father’s eye, that they are a vessel for the Holy Spirit, that they are Divinely beloved and blessed, is going to be consuming large amounts of alcohol or injecting heroin. When you are in that state of grace, when you know deep within your soul that you matter and you are loved, there is nothing to try to escape from, no reason to try to numb yourself out.
Also, there is very little fear! It’s nearly impossible to feel afraid when you are feeling safe, loved, and significant, and you have placed your trust in Him.
Here’s the really frustrating part, all of our attempts to make other people feel important are just so woefully inadequate. We used to bake cookies, and it was like, may this little bit of flour, sugar, and chocolate serve to heal your soul and help to remind you that you matter. Trying to remind people that they matter is still a worthy goal and there should be a whole lot more of that kind of thing in the world, I’m just saying, it’s kind of like handing out one of those cardboard crowns they used to give away at Burger King.
People who actually FEEL important, do not walk about in the world trying to BE important. When people are trying to BE important, there is a hunger there, there is jockeying for power, competitiveness, injured pride, overcompensation, hurt feelings, rejection, envy, strife etc. etc.
I believe in the idea of “faking it until you make it.” I mean it feels kind if phony, corny, and silly at first. Some people think they’re going to get a big head or something. Some people feel as if they are lying. Most of us are kind of troubled creatures with a lot of guilt, trauma, and shame, but that is not really what God says about us. So, nobody is “lying” or “faking it”, you are simply learning to replace your own phony inner dialogue with God’s words.
Here’s what you have to do to feel important. Get together with Jesus every day. Read the Bible and highlight all those words He calls you, like beloved and blessed. Recently Russel Brand talked about 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, the love chapter. Every time you see the word “love,” put your own name in there. You are patient, you are kind. You do not envy, you do not boast, you are not proud…… That is your identity. Those are your real pronouns.
I’m laughing because I do sometimes say, “hey, I self-identify as His beloved, respect my pronouns, people.“
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