{"id":26878,"date":"2021-02-05T10:13:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T10:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=26878"},"modified":"2021-02-05T10:13:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T10:13:34","slug":"do-i-really-know-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/02\/05\/do-i-really-know-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I really know \u201cme\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27019\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/i-know-me-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/i-know-me-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/i-know-me-500x487.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/i-know-me-360x350.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/i-know-me.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Let\u2019s revisit old posts: you know who you are, what God thinks of you,\u00a0 why He created you and probably who he\u00a0 created you to be.\u00a0 Just to reassure &#8220;you&#8221; , ask yourself this \u2018simple\u2019 question: <strong>Who am I? <\/strong>Rather than reel off assumed answers, kindly pause, take time to think and deeply reflect before responding; if possible, write down your answers. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So, <\/em><strong><em>who are you? <\/em><\/strong><em>Are you satisfied with your answers? Do you know and are proud of \u201cyou\u201d or do you still create a new identity for yourself depending on who is asking and the impression you want to create? Be careful!\u00a0 That could steadily move you farther and farther away from who God created you to be. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When you know who you are, you can easily reject the negative opinions of others, labels society places on you and the negative thoughts and behaviours that come with them. When you know who you are, you are free from the pressure and stress to impress and are not moved by what people think or say about you. Furthermore, nobody <\/em><em>can use\u00a0 or take advantage of you.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Know &#8220;you&#8221;!\u00a0 Then you do <\/em><em>not need anyone to validate what\u00a0 you know: God made you unique <strong>and that is <\/strong><\/em><strong><em>what makes you different.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Let\u2019s revisit old posts: you know who you are, what God thinks of you,\u00a0 why He created you and probably who he\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-60-second-motivator"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/i-know-me.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26878"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27020,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26878\/revisions\/27020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}