Listen to yourself on a video.
Your voice sounds different than what you hear every day.
Catch yourself in a glass storefront. Do I really look like that?
It’s when we see ourselves from the outside that we can see ourselves as we are.
How do people that read our social media posts imagine us?
What do the drivers in rush hour traffic think of our manners?
Our siblings? Are we still the little brother or sister they remember from two decades ago?
Isaiah 5:21 gives us potent words to think over.
“Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!”
How can we find the wisdom to change who we are, to become someone who can be looked up to by others?
Here are 3 ways:
1. Read the responses to your social media posts. Seriously. Don’t discount them, and don’t lash back when you dislike them. There’s a reason you got the response you did.
2. Ask yourself, what if someone cut you off in traffic like you did this morning? Would you feel good about yourself? Were you really in that much of a hurry?
3. Are you still sniping at your siblings over hurts from 20 years ago? Be a bigger person. If they snipe, smile and let it go.
We must be as the Bible instructs us: kindhearted, generous, and thoughtful to others. In other words, we must show love.
When we rethink us, we become more like Christ.
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