Okay, so most of us, if not all, know what it’s like to not fit it.  We have all at one time felt that we stuck out, in the wrong way.  I must apologize that my site is not yet perfectly polished.  My logo does not quite fit.  It doesn’t quite “fit in” with my site just yet.  Give it and me time to make it happen.  My point with this post is not a great story from me, but from you, whoever is reading this.  Please submit your story from a time in your life when you didn’t fit in.  I wanna hear your story.

I know, this is perhaps a silly title to a blog post, but it tells you a lot about a person. For instance, one night when my wife and I were out on the town having some ice cream. I listened to the man in front of us place his order. Now, this guy was a big man, over 6′2″ tall and probably 240+ lbs. I was trying to guess in my head what he would order. He looked like a very masculine, no-nonsense kind of guy.  I would have thought this guy would think ice cream is for softies.  When I heard him place his order I saw a whole different side to him. He wanted some fancy-smancy chocolate ice cream with crumbled oreos on top. Not exactly what I was expecting. I was thinking that he might go with ice cream by itself straight up. Maybe Rocky Road if he was looking for adventure.

I think we all do this type of thing each and every day. We judge people based on our perception. This is how we think they will or should appear.  Maybe we knew someone like him or her in the past and still have that as our perception of all people of a certain size, shape, or color.  Often, people surprise us when they don’t act as we would have thought. It showed me that this giant of a man had a softer side.

Okay, so you are asking, “How do you take your ice cream?”  That night I compromised.  Kristi, my wife, wanted cheesecake ice cream with some peanut butter cup contraption for the topping.  I would have personally gone with cheesecake ice cream with some fresh strawberries.  What does this say about me?  That I don’t know.

So I must ask, How do you take your ice cream??  What does this say about you?

Living Up to Our Name
You know it is tough to live up to our name. After all, we are supposed to be little Christs. With a name like this, it is tough to even come close. Still, we should strive to be like Christ. David is a prime example of how, as Christians, we must strive to follow Christ. At the same time, even David made some big mistakes. Check out 2 Samuel 11:2-5. God describes David as a “…man after God’s own heart.” Still, this man made several little baby steps that led to a path of disobedience to God. One sin led to another and before you know it he had Uriah, Bath-sheba’s husband, killed. Not only did he kill Uriah, but he made it look like he was killed in battle. I like to find stories like this in the Bible. It makes me realize that even the great disciples were human-sinning against God and still striving to be like HIM.

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There is no easy way to have humility. It always comes at a price. For me, it has come one failure or hardship after another. Being laid off, getting fired for unknown reasons, a bout with mental illnesses. All of these events brought me back to my knees and more importantly back to God. Each etched in my mind reasons why I worship the one and only true God. As I go through times of spiritual drought, these memories paint a clear picture of what a great God I serve. As frustrating as these spiritual droughts are, they remind me to be humble. They remind me of the humility that Jesus Christ had as He was beaten and hung on a cross. Jesus left heaven to live a perfect life on earth only to die a horrible death. Each day I learn the hard lesson of humility, but it was nothing compared to that which Christ displayed..