Your light for Jesus won’t always be accepted, but those people don’t pay your light bill. God does

By Misty Strieff Prine

                “Some people are going to reject you because you shine too bright for them. That’s okay. They don’t pay your light bill. Keep shining!” – Unknown.

                I have learned this in such a BIG way in my life, even as of late. There’s always going to be someone within your inner circle that just simply doesn’t like your…” brightness”. They don’t like the attention your kindness attracts, the happiness that it ignites like a spark around the room, because after all, smiling and happiness is contagious. There will always be someone in your circle that never claps for you when you succeed, never fully appreciates you when you go above and beyond to help them at the drop of a hat and yet puts that temporary smile on just until you walk away. At the end of the day, you just can’t, nor will you ever be able to please everyone. No matter how hard you try. Simple as that.

But, after experiencing SO many of these types of people in my life, you learn to spot them immediately, so you’re careful. It’s sad that you become THAT good at reading people. You can’t help but wonder why someone can dislike you so much, for no reason at all, that they keep themselves that miserable all of the time. It must be exhausting. I try to remember to apply my own lesson I taught my kids as they were growing up thinking, “you just don’t know what they may be going through, or have been through” but then… I guess I’m just different. I could never just dislike anyone for no reason, be spiteful or spread false truths. So it’s hard to understand. But then I’m reminded it’s not my place to understand. I just have to turn it over.

Like it says above, we need to remember who God has called us to be and not let those people dull our shine for Him though MANY may have tried and CONTINUE to try. At the end of the day “THEY” don’t pay our light bill, God does. Only His opinion should matter to us. We need to pray each day that His will be done and lean on our faith that He’ll take care of the rest and, remember what His word says in Isaiah 54:17, that “No weapon formed against me shall prosper.” Friends, He has MORE THAN proved that every single day. He’s already won the battle. There may be a battle we face each day but He’s preparing us for the next one already.

Remember, the enemy is working overtime…but he doesn’t pay the light bill!