Thoughts and Other Things

W hile getting ready for our youth service last week, I was pondering on a very popular ‘youth Scripture’: “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young” (1 Timothy 4:12). Being active in ministry from a young age, I know and have lived by this verse. Being young and female in leadership, I am familiar with what is to be undermined and I know what it is to strive to ensure it doesn’t happen. But God’s Word being God’s Word, it never seizes to surprise with ‘newness’. Reading this text this time around, God impressed on my heart that while some of us are quick to make sure that no one looks down on us, we are blinded to how we look down on ourselves - we are despised in our own eyes. I had been learning abit about how the fall into sin impacted our sight and I got drawn back to it while exploring this understanding. Sin literally changed the way we see, not just the world, but ourselves. “Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they se