You Are Not Your Own.

“I hate my calves.”

“I’m too fat.”

“I’m too skinny.”

“I’m too stupid.”

“I’m too short.”

Have you ever heard a parent tell their child not to talk bad about himself?  Kids always argue: “I can say it, because I’m talking about myself, not someone else.” (But you’re hurting MY child.)

Is it acceptable to insult a person if that person happens to be you?

No.  Insulting ANYONE is insulting God’s creation.  Are you a better designer than God? Or does He agree with you?  If you insult yourself, will He look over and nod, as if to say “yep, you should have been taller.” 

Because get this—IF GOD DOES NOT AGREE WITH YOU, THEN ONE OF YOU IS WRONG.  And it’s not Him.

If God got out oils paints and painted a landscape, would you critique it?  If God sculpted a figure on horseback, would you grade Him, maybe knock points off for things He got wrong? If God wrote a novel, would you be willing to give it only four stars out of five?

Well, BEING one of God’s MASTERPIECES does not change the rules.  Just because you ARE you, does not give you the right to pass judgment on you.  You belong to HIM.  Only God has the authority to judge you.  I don’t have that authority—and NEITHER DO YOU.  We do not have the authority to judge another person’s servant.  Only the Master of the servant can judge the servant.

“Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls, and stand he will, for God is able to make him stand” Romans 14:4.

“It is HE who has made us, and not we ourselves.  We are HIS PEOPLE and the sheep of His pasture” Psalm 100:3.

If you did not MAKE yourself, then you have NO AUTHORITY to judge yourself.  God is your Master, and God will make you stand. Romans 14:4.

God, help us to give ourselves GRACE and leave the judgment up to YOU!

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