I think it is really interesting what people think of you. I was always a kid who tried to impress, and often got caught out being a fraud. I remember once lying about my uncle who, i told other kids, could get any football shirt for free with their names on it. Obviously i got caught out, as i did when i told a few people i had the entire transformers set and had set my loft up as a battle between the autobots and the decepticons, again quite easily found out when people got fed up of waiting to be invited round to my house. I think for a lot of people, not all, there is something inside us that makes us want to be liked by other people. We often see young people who are so obsessed by getting people to like them they often forget about reality itself.
The thing is people will like us if we stand up for what is right, and they will respect us if we are fair and just. Instead of looking at the end product we should look at how we achieve it. 2 Corinthians 5:20 talks about us being Christs ambassadors. An ambassador is someone that is appointed to represent a nation to other peoples. Now a lot of us would feel we would not be worthy of such a position, but Paul says that it is because of what He has done for us, and the change He has made in our lives, that we are living proof of God's kingdom. In fact God's kingdom is more about peoples lives than geography now, it is about the turn around in individuals and groups of people.
That is why for 2010 i see this as a pivotal verse for Nottingham Youth for Christ. People are not flocking to Churches and so it is more important than ever that we are being living products of what God can do.
Let us stand together and show how awesome God is, yes we are not perfect, yes we all mess up, but isn't that an even bigger testament of what God can do through people like you and me. Let us show the world how amazing Jesus is. Richard D.
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