What’s Inside Is What Counts
We were driving along the highway the other day. I was looking out the window and as we passed by a “stone house” and I mentioned it looked nice.
Tammy nodded, “It looks nice but its still a mobile home inside.”
I nodded silently in agreement, “It still looks nice.”
Tammy and I had watched the metamorphosis from mobile home to stone house take place years ago. No one going by now would ever know it is a mobile home. But inside it is still a mobile home.
I thought about the replica car kits we had looked at in the past. We have thought about building different ones. The roadster street road kit is one of my favorites! The most common kit we found readily available was built on S-10 chassis. That is right, a beautiful fiberglass molded body mounted on an S-10 chassis and you have a roadster!
It looks nice but inside its really an S-10. But going down the road it looks really nice!
This reminds me of what Jesus said to the Scribes and Pharisees!
Matthew 23:27 NIV "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.
We can all take heed to those words. The whitewash, in our case at times, is our actions. We go to church, wear nice clothes, say nice things especially while at church. But inside, we are decaying in sin.
Matthew 23:28 NIV In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
God sees what is inside!
And the best part is that God can change us from the inside out. Only God can do that!
If we try to change on our own, only the outside will be changed for the most part.
But if you will submit to the Lord, he will turn your “make believe” mobile home into a stone home founded on the true cornerstone, Jesus Christ!
Have a bless day.
Comments
Amen. Great analog.