I am 100% a child of God. I love the Lord Jesus Christ with all my mind, soul, heart, and body. I surrender my life each and every day to have God use me for His will and purpose. I am a leader at the youth group involved within my church. I am a sunday school teacher with the children's ministry, and I also volunteer at the christian school located within the church. I am very involved and I don't hide it. At work when people ask me a question about God, I tell them straight up about how great He is.
My co-workers understand that I am christian, however they are constantly making fun of me. Like my lifestyle is hindering them in some way. I know Hollywood has put this label on christians that we are these crazy people that try to "convert" you to believe in Jesus or some different god. But thats not the truth. I DO NOT judge others on how they live their lives. When people at work ask if I would like to go out to a club, I simply reject the offer and move on. I dont go on telling them how partying your life away will only end you up in hell. I dont judge them so that they dont judge me, or so I thought. They still judge me calling me weird names like Bible thumper, or Jesus freak. Yes I believe in God, but dont judge me on how I live my life because of the label movies have put on Christians.
There is this young girl that I work with and she gets beaten by her parents. I listen to what God was sharing with me about her, and I invite her to youth on wednesday explaining that we wont force her into anything religious, but just to hang out with some other individuals who have been in a similar situation as her. To give her comfort and support. In order for myself and my mentor to pray for her, we need her name. It makes prayer personal and directs what we are praying about to a certain person. So I text my other co-worker and ask him for her name. This particular co-worker is one that is consistently making fun of me because I am christian, so expecting some weird response from him I text him regardless, being prepared that he will say something "funny". I simply ask for her name and his first response is, "Your going to pray for her aren't you?" I respond with a yes and I got back the strangest answer, he replied with, "Im not joking around, is this something you always do?" I was shocked, he was actually curious about it. Actually wanting to talk about it instead of making some stupid joke.
It got me thinking, why do people act a certain way in a certain environment? is it a lack of character? do they mold to their surroundings? I, myself, act that same every where I go. Its not like while I'm at work, I curse all the time and flirt with everyone I see. No, that would be a lack of character. At work, I act how I act at church and how I act with my friends while going out to see a movie. Do I act the same in every environment I am in because I have Jesus Christ living inside of me? or maybe its because I know who I am and I'm not afraid to show the real me?
If anyone out there is reading this, please comment your thoughts. I would be very curious to read anything you have to say. :)
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