What's different???

Do you remember as a child, you would see in a magazine two pictures that were ALMOST identical, but they really weren't. Within the pictures, there were some SLIGHT alterations and it was your job to sit there and look and look and LOOK, until  you found the differences.

And although this was an incredibley fun thing to do as a child, as a Christian, we shouldn't have to play this game. When people look at us, they shouldn't have to say, "What's different?" They shouldn't have compare us to this world like...hmmm...they seem exactley the same as everyone else...."What is it?" They shouldn't have to WONDER about us really living for God, they should ALREADY be able to tell. The way we act should be different, the way we talk should be DIFFERENT! Who we fellowship with should be different! The way we dress should be DIFFERENT! The way we treat people should be diffenrt!!! Everything in our life should be DIFFERENT! Sometimes we try SOOOOO hard to fit in with the world, but we shouldn't. Its sad seein a good, christian and not even knowing they are a Christian, because they are TRYING sooooooo hard NOT to be DIFFERNT.

Living for God is NOT like some kind of "WHERES WALDO" game...

God doesn't want us to be like Waldo and just 'blend in'!!!  God wants us to stand out in the middle of a crowd of ungodly people. We don't need to try and make it hard for the world to see that we are a Christian. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 6:17, "Wherefore, come out from among them, and be ye seperate, saith the Lord..."

"If you want to make a difference,

 you've GOT TO BE DIFFERENT!!!"

♥Mary Frances :)

Attitude CHECK!!!

A couple of weeks ago I was at Wal-mart and I was feelin sooo happy and I was JUST in SUCH A GOOD MOOD!!! Really, for no particular reason...I just felt the joy of the Lord in my heart. And there I am shopping, just walkin throught the store like a RAY OF SUNSHINE on dark dreary day for the rest of the world...

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 and I get in line and I'm quietly singing a little song under my breath and the cashier was like, WEEEELLL look at you...singing away....YOUR JUST SOOOO HAPPY!!! And she said like kinda questionin...like I MUST have some good news...like did I just proposed to? Win the lottery? What COULD POSSIBLEY be making me sooooo HAPPPY!?!?!?

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And without missing a beat I just said, Weeelll you know what, GOD IS JUST SOOOO GOOD!!! AND she just looks at me kinda surprised at my response...buuuuuuut I just smile, cuz that honestly and truley is the reason WHY I was feelin soooo happpppy!!! (Trust me, ain't NOBODY been proposin to me!!!;) AND I felt EVEN happier, cuz I felt like by having the joy of the Lord in my heart I was able to be a witness to this cashier at Wal-mart!!!!!!!!!!

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Weeeeeeellll a couple of days later, I found myself at the mall, in NOT quite sooooo good of a mood. Yeah, God is still GOOOOD buuuuuuuut, I was just feelin SLIGHTLY ANNOYED with my brother!!! He had asked me to pick something out for him to give his girlfriend for her birthday cuz he had gotten her this GPS thing for her car but he wanted to give her something girly-girl too, buuuuuut he wasn't about to step foot into the ICING...which my ABSOLUTE favorite store in the whole world for hair accessories....sooooooo he had given me money and told me to pick out something that Liz would like, that wasn't outlandish or wild! He said, "something REALLLY feminine!" I had been thinkin like, okaaaaaaaaay...whats that sayin about ME??? AnywayZ, I took it as, pick out something boring, that I, as in myself would NEVER wear!!! LOLOL

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AnywayZ, turns out that, BIG SURPRISE, my brother didn't like what I had picked out. I'm like, okaaaaaaay I din't get anything bright, its really soft pastel like colors...lacey...whats WRONG with it???  LIZ WOULD NEVER WEAR THAT...its too BIG!!! That thing is HUGE my brother said!!! I'm like okaaaaaaay whatever...I have things that are at least twice the size of that!!!

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Sooooo NOW here I am, at THE ICING, returning it. SO I tell the girl, who happens to see me QUITE often cuz, weeeelll you know, this is my favorite store, so I tell her that I gotta return it. She says, Oh i'm sorry, thats one of our dressy accessories, it can't be returned! I'm like, OH no its ok! I have my RECIEPT!!! I pull it out and show it to her. She says oh I know, buuuut the store has a policy on certain things that we sell, they can't be returned because they are dressy!

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I'm  thinkin like WHAAAAAAAAAT?! Cuz NOW what am I supposed to with this flower, that I would NEVER wear and cost over $10....I'm like...Ummmm...okaaaaay weeeellll...I didn't know  about this policy, NO ONE TOLD ME!!! And she is like, weeeeellll...the policy is printed on the back of ALL our receipts and I'm thinkin, like OKAAAAAAAAY...WHO READS THE BACK OF THEIR RECEIPTS???

What's different?

Do you remember as a child, you would see in a magazine two pictures that were ALMOST identical, but they really weren't. Within the pictures, there were some SLIGHT alterations and it was your job to sit there and look and look and LOOK, until  you found the differences.

And although this was an incredibley fun thing to do as a child, as a Christian, we shouldn't have to play this game. When people look at us, they shouldn't have to say, "What's different?" They shouldn't have compare us to this world like...hmmm...they seem exactley the same as everyone else...."What is it?" They shouldn't have to WONDER about us really living for God, they should ALREADY be able to tell. The way we act should be different, the way we talk should be DIFFERENT! Who we fellowship with should be different! The way we dress should be DIFFERENT! The way we treat people should be diffenrt!!! Everything in our life should be DIFFERENT! Sometimes we try SOOOOO hard to fit in with the world, but we shouldn't. Its sad seein a good, christian and not even knowing they are a Christian, because they are TRYING sooooooo hard NOT to be DIFFERNT.

Living for God is NOT like some kind of "WHERES WALDO" game...

God doesn't want us to be like Waldo and just 'blend in'!!!  God wants us to stand out in the middle of a crowd of ungodly people. We don't need to try and make it hard for the world to see that we are a Christian. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 6:17, "Wherefore, come out from among them, and be ye seperate, saith the Lord..."

"If you want to make a difference,

 you've GOT TO BE DIFFERENT!!!"