when i look around at people, one aspect that keeps recurring is conformity. whether its a persons personality, attire, or the way they talk, i always feel like ive seen it a hundred times. even people that want to stand out are so commonplace that they eventually just blend. sometimes i think that the only person someone wants to be is someone else. the state of the world is conformity. as Christians, ones distinguished from the world and ones who have casted off our old selves, our aim must be deviation from the norm. by our actions as Christ followers and, specifically, as ones who don't follow the ways of the world, we should stand out and contrast to the background of the world. our ways should not be the same because our goals are not the same. here's some inspiring imagery from Jesus Freak:
separated, i cut myself clean
from a past that comes back in my darkest of dreams
then apprehended by a spiritual force
and a Grace that replaced all the me i divorced...
1 comment:
as someone who has a natural bent towards people pleasing, this is hard to take in ... it's so much "easier" to conform to the world and be accepted ...
but ouch (in a much-needed way). thanks for the reminder.
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