worry not about what others think of me but what God thinks

this is improving. I felt compelled to take a walk yesterday during my quiet time so I walked across my apartment complex to where the lake with the fountain is. There is a bench there and I thought it would be fitting to sit there while I did my quiet time.

Anyhow, on the way there, I realized how strange some people might have thought I was toting around my Bible while walking outside. I was tempted to hide my Bible behind my other book but I heard God saying “Don’t be afraid.”

It’s funny because I remember passing by this one gentlemen and he glanced at me and I just knew he would take another look to check to see if I really was carrying around a Bible. He certainly did look again and I smiled at him.

It was just funny because there is never this much activity in the parking lot during this time that I was taking my walk to the lake so it was like God was doing it to teach me not to worry about what others think.

I ended up having one of the most fulfilling quiet times I’ve had in a while. God is good!

Too often I am concerned about what the world thinks of me, but that doesn’t even matter in the grand scheme of things. What God cares about is what matters and I just need to learn to be less concerned with the world. It’s hard when you have all these “things” that you own, that you cherish, that you hold dear because the world approves of them. I want to be careless about the thoughts of the world, and mindful of God’s thoughts.