Slapping a label on something assures we can catalog it, file it,
store it, and set it aside until another day.
It’s the same with people. Sometimes, we are so prone to label a person.
“He’s gay.”
‘She’s fat.”
“They are strange.”
“All you loony tunes stand over on that side.”
Where is the redemption in a label?
Where is grace in a label such as these?
What we sometimes forget is this:
“There is always a person
behind the label.”
Always!
I've had some labels attached to me before.
Clumsy
Stupid
Uncoordinated
Klutz
And others …
Labels hurt.
Here is a bit of encouraging news …
“For
Jesus, the person was more
important
than any category or label.”
Philip Yancey said that in What’s
So Amazing about Grace.”
Gotta love that.
I’m not the labels of my past, nor are you.
We are way more important than any label mankind can attach to us.
Believe that.
P Michael Biggs
Offering
Hope
Encouragement
Inspiration
One
Word at a Time
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