Just Me

After talking with our dear friends, the Huussen family one afternoon, I found myself reflecting on something that was said. At one point, I told Lydia that she was crazy (she is, by the way!) LOL But her response is what made me think: "No, I'm just me."

I have used that term multiple times since then, including in a previous blog post. (Cause people call me crazy all the time! LOL)

Have you ever met someone who just wasn't themselves. I know that's an oxymoron, but the idea is that this kind of person behaves as if they're someone they're not. Make sense?

It's easy for me to get frustrated with people who act like this. I wonder what their motives are. Only someone who is not satisfied with who God made them would behave this way, and I know that it is not pleasing to God! What would you feel like if you created someone for a unique purpose, giving them limitations that you want to work your power through, giving them strengths that you can receive glory in, and making them different than anyone else so that they are able to be what no one else can, being themselves in God's own, planned way... only for them to strive at being someone else?

I wonder at the motives.... I know that it does not please God. In fact, in my opinion, it smells of wordliness! This attitude comes from the concept that one person or personality is more important than another; that to be, or act, or look a certain way, puts you in a category above others. I believe that this attitude, which has strongly influenced this generation, is from from the Television, Hollywood, Magazines, and Hell itself! It is certainly not from God! This is what God says:

2 Corinthians 10:12
"For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise."

Comparing yourself to others rather than Christ is simply unscriptural. Paul the apostle constantly references Christ in his epistles when judging himself. He never puts himself in a category based on accomplishments, accolades, or appearance. He simply strived to be like Christ. That is God's desire for Christians.

The Lord told Samuel in 1 Samuel 16:7,
"Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart."

This is also why fantasy is dangerous. Letting your mind wander makes you wish you were someone or something that you're not. I advise to be careful of most fictional books, as well. It is easy for our carnal minds to lose reality and fantasize about things that are either not God's will, or are simply fantasy. Paul said, "...whatsoever things are true...think on these things." I am not against all fictional books, as long as they honor God. But I think even with clean, Christian fiction, it is easy for the mind to wander. That is not God's will.

Paul also said, "Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;"

I've heard of supposed Christian young people taking pictures of actors or so-called "stars" down to the beauty salon to get the same hair cut. I know of people who dress or act different around different people to give a false depiction of theirself based on their company. Then there are those who are not simply not satisfied with who God made them, and resort to painting themselves up to look different, something the Bible classifies as the actions of an harlot. I heard one preacher say, "you need LOTS of paint on that barn!" He was even speaking of his wife! The manners that I grew up with dictate that to be a rude comment! But the point is, did he marry his wife for who she was, or for who she wasn't, but could make herself to look like. I'm not angry or upset at anyone who disagrees with this, but I think America has overdone the philosophy that we need to be someone that God did not make us.

I can't speak for everyone, but I know that I love my dearest friends the way I do, because they are themselves! They're not pseudo-anything. Nothing fake, phony, or plastic. Just down to earth, real people. I love my family for who they are. I love my friends for who they are.
I want to be...."just me!"



"Just be who you is, don't be who you ain't, cause if you ain't who you is, you is who you ain't!"
- Commen sense

"Just Me," Lydia J. Huussen, Used by Permission