Candy coins.
They fascinate children everywhere.
See, children know the real sort. They know their worth comes from what they can do with them. Coin banks. A ride at the park. A manual car wash. Drop in your coins and watch them disappear forever.
But who would eat them? No one, at least no one with any sense. You can’t eat metal.
But candy coins … and the lights go off in their little eyes. All metal on the outside … even if it is just tin foil. They can pretend they are rich, because they are … in sweet goodness.
The thing about candy coins is that chocolate must be very stiff to hold its shape. The cocoa butter that makes good chocolate so luscious must be pared down to give the tin foil its illusion of reality.
Before gobbling down our treasure trove, we must peel the foil back and taste the chocolate to see if it’s good.
The same is true of our Christian example. Are we good at holding our tinfoil covering in place, at looking like a gold coin, when all we are is cheap chocolate inside?
2 Corinthians 13:5 tells us to nibble our Christianity to see if it is good.
“Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.” (NKJV)
See this like God sees it. He has given us the plan for living a Christian life. Jesus is our example, and his story is told multiple times and in multiple places in the Word. He is the central character in our Christian instruction manual, and we can use his life as a ruler to measure how we are doing.
A taste test of sorts to see if the gold the world sees on the outside is worth the Christian we are on the inside.
So, test your gold. Compare your life to that of Jesus. How do you measure up?
Will the unredeemed desire to follow Christ when they see who you really are?
When we live out Jesus in our words and actions, they will! Our testimony will be as good as gold through and through.
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