Forming Impressions
‘But you are a chosen people, a
royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may
declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful
light’.(1 Peter 2:9)
I
was doing a Case Study for a class and ran across four concepts that Social
Psychologist deem important in assessing
others, which are;
1. Sources of Information
(Sources and types
of information that that helps form impressions of others)
2. Snap and Systematic
(Retaining first
impressions and intentional reflections)
3. Attributions
(Assuming we know
the causes of another’s behavior)
4. Cognitive Distortions
(Taking an easy
way to define others by using social categorization and stereotyping)
I
thought about all of these concepts and how man has a system for judging a
person based on what we see, hear and
read about an individual, but God is the total opposite!
As a chosen generation we are to
walk and talk in our God given identity-not how others see us nor what they
say. It’s only to distract us from our TRUE PURPOSE and truly become in tune to
what HE is saying do.
And when we get to that place
where only His voice matters and those He has placed in our lives to bring out
what’s IN us, I believe He is pleased when we finally arrive at the place where
we’re in reckless pursuit of what He desires and that He can fully move in our
lives.
Let’s stop letting man determine
how we perceive others but choose to see and form an impression based on what
your spirit man says. Time reveals and confirms all!
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