Don't assume

This post comes about because of so many assumptions!  I am going to post a few things that people have assumed about me and I would like to tell you to always assume for the softer, kinder assumption.  I am trying to quit the assumption game. 

First, but not the most important one, never, never assume someone is old when they are not!!  At least give the benefit of doubt and don't just give me that terrible thing called the senior discount.  I would really like it if all you people that can give discounts would always err to the softer, kinder, younger assumption.  

Don't assume someone is pregnant!  Way back and I mean way back when I was in my twenties someone ask me when the baby was due.  I think I said something like I'm not pregnant, I'm just fat.  Of course it was a man that asked that almost fatal question.  The crazy thing I wasn't even fat at that particular time.  

Don't assume I am sad just because I am crying   I cry all the time and I am not always sad! 

Don't assume I am happy just because I am smiling.  I have been know to put on the happy mask.

Don't assume I can't mow the lawn! I can!

Don't assume that I can't cook!  Sometimes I can!

Don't assume that I won't have my children's back.  Don't mess with my kids!

Don't assume that I can't keep plants alive.  I can keep any ivy alive!

Don't assume that I will always make sense when I write.  I sometimes don't.

The last assumption that I am going to list, though I know there are many more, is don't assume that I am a Christian.  Well I am, I am a saved by the grace of God but how many times do we just assume that the person next to us is saved?  

I think that I have got to quit assuming that just because you look a certain way and that you are nice, gentle, kind and go to church that you are a Christian.  I would hate to make an assumption that might land you in the wrong place.

I am so glad that someone didn't make that assumption about me.

John 3:16-17New Living Translation (NLT)

16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave[a] his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.