Gold nuggets
Rise above people's opinions
Rise above people's opinions about you. It is much better to have God on your team, doing the right thing, than to follow the cheers of the crowd – who do not have God's approval.
“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.”
Psalm 1:1 (NKJV)
“If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater.”
1 John 5:9 (NKJV)
Sometimes God asks us to do things that may seem strange to others. But if God has said it, we act on His orders without fear.
Jesus made a clay of earth and anointed the eyes of a blind man and made him see (John 9:6–8). Very original! But the result was that the man received his sight.
You will know a tree by its fruit, not by its method (Matt 7:20). There are no “holy methods” in the Bible. Everything must be adapted to the people we are with, the society, and the time we live in. And the people we are set to help.
Don't let anyone steer you off the course that God has set for you.