"I'll never escape the stereotypes and low expectations people have for my ethnicity."
How it sounds in your head: They expect me to be good at math because I'm Asian. They expect me to be loud and angry because I'm black. They expect me to clean houses, not own them, because I'm Latina. They're surprised when I succeed and unsurprised when I struggle. Their low expectations feel like a ceiling I'll never break.
"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope."
-- Jeremiah 29:11Enemy using societal prejudice to cap her potential and make her forget she's already blessed to be the head.
She's been praised for being 'surprisingly' articulate or smart. She's watched guidance counselors steer her toward vocational programs while steering white classmates toward college. She's felt the subtle shock when she exceeds expectations, like she's an anomaly instead of fulfilling her design.
Crippled, hiding, grandson of a disgraced dead king, expecting nothing but death if discovered. David found him and said 'you'll eat at my table like one of the king's sons.' From Lo-Debar (place of nothing) to the king's table in ONE ENCOUNTER. Low expectations shattered by covenant loyalty. His disability didn't define his destiny.
I REFUSE the lie that stereotypes and low expectations define my ceiling. IT IS WRITTEN that God knows the thoughts He thinks toward me—thoughts of peace, of hope, of a FUTURE that doesn't include society's caps. I am His workmanship, created for good works He prepared before anyone's prejudice existed. IT IS WRITTEN that I am blessed to be the head and not the tail, above only and not beneath. The Abrahamic blessing doesn't ask permission from human bias—it OVERRIDES it. I walk in the reality that God's design for my life shatters every expectation the world tries to impose. I am not an anomaly when I succeed—I am fulfilling EXACTLY what He created me to be.
The Father is running toward you with a future written in heaven that includes ZERO human stereotypes. He's pulling out a chair at His table, ignoring every voice that said you don't belong there, whispering 'I made you for THIS—watch Me prove them all wrong.'