So last week, Haven had to wear pink on Wednesday to her school and all I could think about was Mean Girls...and specifically this scene:
And so this got me thinking about mean girl voices, and especially the mean girl voice that sometimes resides in my head. You know the one: the one that says to fit in you should be something completely different than who you really are. It's the one who reminds you of your awkwardness and who silences your voice ("Gretchen, stop trying to make Fetch happen. It's not going to happen!").
I sat in a meeting this past week and throughout it's duration I had an inner dialogue with my mean girl voice. I had ideas to offer but with each idea that popped into my mind, I could hear the mean girl pipe in with all the reasons why my opinion was not valid or stupid. And at one point I realized that I literally had not offered a single opinion in the discussion when I was invited to that table because my opinions matter!
I'm still working on silencing the mean girl in my head, but I'm starting to discover that the only antidote is the love of God. On the mornings when I've actually spent a little time receiving His love I am more confident that I belong at the table. I'm more confident that the ideas and opinions that I have are of Him. I can tell the mean girl to go sit at a different table and I can actually let MY voice be heard.
Look at what Paul has to say about this in Romans:
Romans 8:31-39The Message (MSG)
31-39 So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us? And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God’s chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ’s love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture:
They kill us in cold blood because they hate you.
We’re sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.
We’re sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.
None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.
Did you get that? Our mean girl voice (which is really the voice of the enemy) does not stand a chance when Christ is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us!
Let that sink in for a second.
Jesus has your back and it is His desire that the mean girl voice does not faze us. Why? Because of His love.
It's time friends that we let our voices be heard. You have brilliant ideas. You have opinions. You have wisdom and passion and tables that you are invited to sit at. Most importantly, you can hear the voice of God. Please don't let the shouts of the mean girl get more air time in your mind than the whispers of the Father. Believe that He loves you. Trust that He is fighting for you.
And it IS Wednesday...so wear pink or black or whatever you want with the knowledge that you are loved and there is nothing that can separate you from His love!
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