When you worry, or are even concerned [which can become a healthy
replacement for “worry”] about what people may think of you if
you actually, radically lived and spoke in the Holy Spirit of Christ,
remember what people thought of Him: heretic, possessed of evil, a
criminal worthy of death. He loved even those who judged Him, but,
thank God, He did not allow their judgments to deter Him in His
God-ordained, loving, redemptive mission. Our fears about what others
will think of us have two basic roots: our uncertainty of the origin
of our thoughts and deeds [“Is this really from God?”; or our
egoistic pride in not wanting to be mocked or looked down upon by
the arrogant, blind eyes of the world [sometimes manifested through
those in our own household or social circles]. One aspect of our
sanctification is to allow the Love of God in us to drive out those
fears.
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