"Put in a box"

Yesterday I watched a rather inspiring video.

It is about a young man who attended a Christian college and who worked to overcome negative social stigmas and pressures that told him that he needed to act a certain way. By "act" I mean the way he talked, the way he dressed, and the way he lived his life. He chose to live for Christ, but he never did it on anyone's terms aside from God. Is he different than most men? Certainly. Is he different in God's eyes? Absolutely not.

I have so much respect for this person that I have never even met. His unwillingness to let people "put him in a box" is beyond worthy of praise. If you're living for God, spreading the gospel, and doing everything in your power to overcome your own issues, then why let others put you in that box? God creates you as a unique individual, not as a robot that conforms to what everyone else is doing.

Bottom line: Surround yourself with positive, uplifting people who do not expect you to look and act like 90% of the people today do. Christ doesn't care whether you have spiky hair or dreadlocks. He doesn't care if you have a high or low pitched voice, or if you prefer art and music instead of science and engineering.

Don't let society put you in that box.