love letters, replied.

identity.

euihwanp:

in my social psych class yesterday, we learned about an experiment in which an elementary school class was split into two groups—blue eyes and brown eyes—and was told that the blue-eyed group was the superior group with more benefits.  it took the class only a few minutes to register and process that stereotype and put it into action, and by the end of the day the blue-eyed kids were discriminating the brown-eyed kids and mocking them for being brown-eyed.  learning about this experiment, i realized how easily persuaded we are by the society’s standards and stereotypes and how easily we feed into whatever the society tells us about ourselves.

God has been speaking to me about humility a lot for the past week or so, and i’ve learned that there is a huge difference between knowing one’s own unworthiness and feeling worthless.  we are all unworthy before God, but He has placed His worth in us through Jesus Christ, and so we are never worthless.

i’ve been letting others and the society and Satan identify me for too long.  so easily persuaded into feeling worthless and unappreciated and unloved for too long.  but my identity in Christ is so much greater than any false identity the society tries to place on me.  i am a child of God.  i am His beloved.  i am able because He is able.