All That Glitters Isn't Gold

Tonight I was talking with my daughters about the clothes they have and how cute they are. When I think back about all the clothes they have, more often than not I don’t remember ever buying them because they get most of them as hand me downs from other friends. Well my youngest daughter Gabby made a comment that her older sister Robin gets all the cloths and she doesn’t get anything. The reason is Robin is older and bigger and the people that give us clothing have girls that are older and bigger than Robin so it has everything to do with their sizes. What broke my heart was the conclusion that Gabby came up with as to the reason she doesn’t get any clothes. “It’s because nobody likes me.” How often has our thought pattern been the same, because we weren’t asked to go somewhere with a group or we didn’t get a Christmas card from the people we sent cards to nobody likes us? So in our privacy fenced in lives, how are we supposed to fulfill the social nature within each of us? How would our lives be different if we truly believed and accepted that Christ’s love is sufficient for us? How much more grateful would we be for that love, how much more devoted would we be to loving Him with all of heart, mind, soul, and strength? What would happen if we lived that devoted life that didn’t need to be put behind a privacy fence, a life where there is no difference between the life we project for everyone to see and the one we live behind closed doors fully devoted to Him? I pray that I demonstrate His unconditional love to the extent that Robin and Gabby see that He is all they need.