Open Book

I am who I am. I am who God created me to be. Both in the first creation (in the womb) and the second creation (being reborn.) I don't make apologies for who I am. I will not change who I am in order to please someone else. I'm an open book, I live my life completely in the open for all to see. I don't hide behind closed doors, drawn windows or locked up in some room within my heart. If someone doesn't like something about me, that does not concern me. That is their choice, not mine. If someone cannot accept the whole me, they do not get to have half of me or any percentage below 100. And that is not my concern.

It is not my job to make everyone happy. It's not even my job to make one person happy. My job, on this earth, is to spread the Good News that Jesus Christ, of Nazareth, was born of a virgin, lived, taught what He wanted His people to know, was beaten, hung on a cross for my healing and the cleansing of my sin, that He rose again on the third day to purchase my salvation and rose to Heaven so that I might have eternal life with God. Another part of my job, on this earth, is to help all those who are in need that I have the ability to help. Even if they don't ask, if I see the need and have the ability to meet that need, it is my responsibility to do so. And that's the end of my job, on this earth.

Along the way, God has given me gifts that I can share with others. Words of encouragement, words of warning and words of caution. He gives me those words to put into song. He gives me those words to put into devotionals. He gives me those words to encourage other Believers. It's not my job, it's my blessing and my joy. It's my praise and my worship of the Creator of the Universe!

Other people may not understand the things I do or the things I say. And that's okay; maybe what I do and what I say is not for them. If they are upset about them, again, that's not my concern. Others may have bias that makes them unable to hear or understand what I say and do. That's not my concern. Others may have beliefs that are different than mine. Not my concern. They may have traditions that I do not have. Not my concern. They may think me strange, weird, whacko, unhinged or even unsaved. Not my concern.

It is not my concern how others choose to live their lives. Whether saved, unsaved, backslidden or purely evil. The only requirement on me regarding those things is that I live the way Christ tells me to live, that I obey God and that I tell them about Jesus and His love, grace and mercy, that He offers them salvation through the blood of Jesus and to offer to meet any of their need that I have the ability to fill. That's it. That's all. Full stop.

I choose to live my life completely open and honest. I choose to allow everyone to see who I am, what I do and hear what I say. Unless and until God tells me otherwise, I will continue to do so. He is the only One that I desire, or need, to please.