What if you got a gift bag and you filled it with pretty tissue paper and put a beautiful bow on the outside? BUT…you didn’t actually put a present inside the bag. It sure is pretty. Decorated just gorgeous. BUT..it’s empty.
Pretty much a waste isn’t it? What’s the point of it? Would you want that gift?
Now..
In life, we all pretty much do the same thing sometimes. Sure, we look like we have it all together. Hair fixed. Decent outfit. A home with manicured yards (with my house being the exception.. 🙂 ). We all may look like we have it all together.
Five Bibles in the house. “Praying” before each meal. Going to church. You know..doing the “right” things. To look good.
How’s the inside look? See..God looks on the inward appearance.
1 Samuel 16:7 (NIV) ~ But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things man look at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
Everybody sees our outward appearance. Only God and (me or you) can see what is on the inside.
Will you take a look on the inside with me? Will you look within..like I am doing..and see what may need to improve with the attitude of the heart?
Otherwise, we are just nicely decorated..empty packages.
I don’t want to be an empty package that just looks like it should. I want to glorify HIM in ALL things. HE sees the inward appearance. We can’t fool HIM.
“What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
Questions for you and for me:
1) What are some changes that you may need to make?
2) How’s your attitude?
3) Do you realize that we can’t fool our God?
Until Next Time,
Hope For The Broken 