“WHAT?”

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 683

May 14, 2024///

I do not know where this came from, but I have heard this phrase said to people several times: “Just do you”!

This means to me, just be who you are and do what you need to do!

When looking at the comments of a good friend passing, I realized that he lived a life for others which glorifies God and was not even aware of all the lives he was affecting. He just did all he did with joy and love for others, which was just who he was. No striving to impress or be who others thought he should, he followed the phrase “just do you”!

Everybody wants significance. We want to be liked. We need to be validated by other people’s comments or how they see us!

Sometimes that is the guiding principle of someone’s life. We get so bound up in our perception of how others see us, we fail to be who we are!

The expectations of others can help us or hurt us! When it comes to our children our positive expectations can help them achieve success in whatever they are doing.

But when we are so bound by those expectations that our children feel discouraged and depressed if they do not meet them, that is negative and tears down the self-esteem they should walk in.

Why are people so bound by what others think?

I believe it is because we do not know why we are here, in this world. The questions may have come up in your mind: “What am I here for: what is my purpose in life”!

“GOD CREATED US FOR HIS GLORY, THAT IS WHY WE ARE HERE!”

Isaiah 43:7 (KJV)

For I have created him for my glory,

I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

This is the final definition of genuine importance or significance to our lives. If we are truly important to God for eternity, then what greater measure of importance could we want?

The apostle Paul tells us to do all we do to the Glory of God!

When we just live our lives to Glorify the Father who is truth and light, we become a beacon to others without striving.

So, I ask you today: What is guiding your life?

Are you walking in “just do you”? Or are you bound up in what others think of what you do or what you say or how you act?

Jesus came to set us free from being bound and free to be who He created us to be!

That looks different in each of our lives! We are in different places and different seasons, but the goal is just to be us and glorify God in all we do!

I must confess I have a habit of rerunning conversations through my mind and questioning whether the person understood what I was trying to say or if I should have said more or less or said it differently.

I am learning that as I release my day to the Lord, I am also releasing all I do and speak. I can depend on His guidance to say what needs to be said in the situation and do what needs to be done and it brings Him Glory! I must “just do me”!

I love the scriptures that say obedience and thanksgiving, and worship is more pleasing to God that any sacrifice we could make!

Our obedience, thanksgiving, and worship Glorifies God!

If you are reading this and have never received or believed the Jesus was crucified to forgive all our past present and future wrongs we do, just tell Jesus you want Him to live life through you and you will find real life.

Then glorifying God with all you do will come naturally.

I know this may sound to preachy for some, but I really feel that too many people, including Christians, live their lives to please other rather than God!

“GOD CREATED US FOR HIS GLORY, THAT IS WHY WE ARE HERE!”

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Father, thank you for creating each of us on purpose and for a purpose. You have a plan for us to live each day honoring you in all we do. Let us honor you in the mundane task and the places we may be that we do not want to be. May our heart just love you and help us to “just do us”! I ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen!

Love, Me-Maw