In the eyes
of God we are all equal and thus the Bible tells us that, God is not a
respecter of persons. In the past used to walk so down cast because I felt not
worthy. Most of the time when one is insecure, they would feel everybody and
everything is against them. I will agree with that opinion because, I suffered
so much of rejection which has never stopped to date.
But I got this secret after many
years of suffering, that, you can never please everybody. You can only please
yourself and a few people who will appreciate you for who you are. This great
breakthrough came to me when I once listened to Pastor Joyce Meyer, a lady I
love because she has taught me so much from her teachings. Joyce suffered so
much because of the abuse she received from home. I will not delve in her
story, but her story is not very different from many of our stories and thus
God put her there to encourage us.
For you to be accepted you have
first to love who you are, it does not matter how people look at you. Just a
few days after I shared about myself and how people take me, call me and say
about me, I visited this place and a lady looked at me directly and told me, I
looked familiar. To help her, I told her, I am a staff in the institution we
were at, though working at a different working station. She recalled me and
said “yeah I remember you, you were in this section some years back, I wondered
where you went, and just the other day, I asked someone about you and they said
you left to another station. I told her, “Yes it is true I was transferred. Not
long, another colleague came in and made the same remark that I looked
familiar. Reiterating, I told her I am one of them. She asked me my name and I
told her my first name “ROSE”. She was very excited and told me that, she could
see I am familiar but she could not really get where we had met. Immediately
she shouted, after I said my name and said, “by the way, now I get it, you are
“Rose the Thorn”. Shocked and not believing she just said that, I laughed out
loud just to make it look like a joke and we all laughed hysterically.
Pretending, I was not that amused,
but just put the show to get more information why I was called that, I asked
this lady why I was called “Rose the Thorn”. She told me because, from the
outside I am a very beautiful lady like a Rose but inside me there is a thorn.
True, Roses as in flowers, have this description which is a fact about them.
Then I asked her politely and trickily why people said that. She said, “Because
you are very tough and I do not entertain nonsense. If someone brushed you the
wrong way, they will face the music in terms of the thorn inside you.” I got
it. For sure, do not meet me when I am angry because you will doubt if I am a
child of God. I am saying this because those who have experienced my thorn can
attest to the statement. But this is not the problem because as I have always
said, I can never pretend to be what I am not. I am always so real to a point I
do not mind anyone branding me any name when I am in my worst state. The point
is, do you go looking down about yourself because of those two or three
weaknesses/flaws you have and you always think you are good for nothing?
I will not lie to you, after I got
to know I am “ Rose the Thorn” I went asking myself, really? Am I that bad that
I am called all these names? I went really reasoning with myself and asked God
to just reveal to me what is this that makes people call me names. Some names
are good others are so bad. I will never forget when I was in class four; there
is this boy who used to call me “typewriter”. I never understood why, but one
day I got guts and asked him why he called me that. He told me, it is because I
talk one hundred words per minute. For sure, I have lived knowing my
talkativeness is a very bad thing and thus I hated who I was.
Today I love who I am because, God
had all the reasons to create me the way he has and I do not need to get any
negative approval from any man because God loves me just the way I am. If God
was qualifying people because of how good and perfect they are, then I do not
think anyone in this world would qualify. So, why would someone pin you down
using your weakness to prove a point? Please do not agree to that. If we will
appreciate who we really are and love ourselves for who we are, then we will
not have all these problems around us about competitions, gossiping,
jealousness, backbiting, slandering and my list is endless. You are fearfully
and wonderfully made and thus no one should define who you should be. You
should not fake it to make it as I hear many people say. They justify this
statement that, in order to survive in this world; you have to fake it to make
it. THIS IS A BIG LIE. Do not forget this will not last for long because at
some point your real self will come out and you will pay the price for all what
you have been faking to be all the years you have faked it and especially if
you have been gaining wrongly.
Someone said in Swahili, “malipo
ni hapa duniani.” This means, “Nothing will go unaccounted for on this earth”.
I want us to know, we were all created for a reason and a purpose on this
earth. One should work on pursuing more of their purpose than listen to the
negative voices that come our way to dis-value us. It is unfortunate today to
fit anywhere; you have to have a show so that you fit it. My motto is, I will
always be real even if you take me to be a fool. This is because, I tried to be
a people’s pleaser in the past and I never won anyone. In any case, I suffered
so much trying to; to a point I was left like a pauper who has to go begging
for approval. Having a personal relationship with my God has given me so much
peace of mind that today; I do not mind how people see me or call me.
You are there and you feel so down
cast because people have tried to weigh you down, they say you are good for
nothing; they call you names that you cannot really relate with? I want to
encourage you and give you hope where there is no hope. Do not mind about the
frogs in the river. If you are thirsty, go and drink your water. The noise the
frogs are making should never scare you because, frogs are created to make
noise day in day out. If you will listen to the noise of the frogs, then you
will die thirsty.
Believe in yourself; prove to the
world you are not what they think you are. This can never be achieved by faking
it to make it, but to be real. It is in your realness that you will know
exactly who you are, and then you work on your flaws. Do not be cheated by
anyone there is anyone who is perfect in this world. We are all in a process of
being made every day we wake up. We learn our lessons every day and we become
different as the day dawns.
Today I wanted to encourage you
and call you by who you are that, you are chosen, you are unique and nobody
will be like you ever. Love who you are and work on your weakness and embrace
your strengths.
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