The stickers only stick if you let them

Here's a short summary of You are Special by Max Lucado..(Hopefully that will help this make sense).

You are Special is about a little wooden puppet named Punchinello who is a Wemmick. The other wemmicks give him dots because Punchinello doesn't do anything "special". He doesn't have any of the talents that the other Wemmicks have, or at least not that he can see. If he did have a special talent, he'd be given a star. Then he meets a Wemmick who doesn't have any stars or dots. She tells him about going to see the Woodcarver named Eli. So Punchinello heads up that way and meets Eli. Eli reminds Punchinello that He made him and He thinks He is special. As Punchinello listens, a sticker fell off. Eli reminds Punchinello(who is sitting in His lap at this point), that the stickers only stick if you let them. The more you trust His love, the less the stickers stick. He told Eli to come see Him everyday and to let Eli remind Punchinello just how special he was(Eli knew after all because He made him).

I used this story for years with teaching teenagers and doing various camps etc. Why am I bringing this up now? Because God whispered this week....The stickers only stick if you let them.   So many times we let what others say to us or about us stick and we shouldn't(I know it's hard........). He is the only one whose opinion matters. So many times though we get busy and the dots start to stick. Then when we slow down we crawl up in His lap and start listening to what He has to tell us. Just like taking off a band-aid that has been on for awhile, the stickers coming off may sting at first, but over time His grace will be all that you feel. So if you have had a day when the world has just beat you up, when you feel like you going in one direction and everyone else is pulling you in another, crawl up in His lap and let Him remind you just how special you are. The stickers will start to fall off and over time, His words will be all that you remember.

The stickers only stick if you let them. Some days keeping the stickers from sticking is not going to be easy. Those are the days that as soon as you get a chance run to His lap and let Him remind you of how special you are and how much He loves you. After all He made you and He knows you the best and loves you the most!!