9 insights to help you when people doubt or misunderstand you.
- Those who are close have the tendency to become familiar with you. Familiarity is one of the reasons why some people will doubt or misunderstand your potential to accomplish your responsibility.
3 – “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.
4 – But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.” (Mark chapter 6 verses 3 to 4)
- How skillful, talented and intelligent you are may not cancel the fact that people will doubt you. Always know you are what you are by God’s grace.
“But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.” (1Corinthians chapter 15 verses 10.)
- Always remember you are unique and so is your responsibility.
14 “For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man;
17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians chapter 3 verses 14 to 19)
- Always be mindful of what your inner mind says about you than what people say about you.
“But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.” (Romans chapter 8 verses 11)
- People always arrive when you have not. People have the tendency to predict that you have attained your best when to you it is not yet your good.
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,” (Philippians chapter 3 verses 13.)
- Always make their doubt to articulate your pace towards accomplishing your responsibility.
26 – “And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
45 – Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.” (1Samuel chapter 17 verses 26, 45)
- Always know that your greatest challenge may emerge from your family members.
“When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, ‘He is out of his mind.’” (Mark chapter 3 verses 21 NIV)
- Always know that God believe in you. Whatever God thinks about you cancels every doubt of people toward you.
“Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.” (1 Timothy chapter 4 verses 12.)
- Always known that Jesus was doubted.
“For neither did his brethren believe in him.” (John chapter 7 verses 5.)
Conclusion
Do not be upset when those you thought who believe you ended up doubting and even oppose you. They judge you based on their level of knowledge about you, it is in your power to prove them wrong. Turn your doubt into a stepping stone.
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