As of late, I have been wrestling with the importance of character and integrity in my life. I have yet to do this dance well. To be honest, I feel like I screw it up more and more every day. Will I ever truly get this dance down? Nope.
There's a fine line between true freedom in Jesus and causing others to stumble and/or marring your integrity based off people's perception of who you are without knowing you. I cannot control people's perception of me, but I can control my dance. I can discipline myself to live free before God, BUT no matter how well I dance, people will still have a marred perception of me.
At the core, my struggle is about THE Kingdom. In my past, I have made mistakes. The problem is that people from my past do not see the progress of brokenness in my life, and their perception is still rooted in my mistakes. Can't win this one. This is where I must stop caring so much about other people's perceptions of me, and I must rest in God's perception of me.
