Picture a professional basketball player.
That’s easy. It’s someone who towers over us. Long arms and long legs are a must.
How about a jockey? Small stature and slender build are important. The lighter the weight, the more likely the horse is to win.
A ballerina. Ahh, we can all picture that. Slim, graceful, with movements of butter and silk.
How do we picture a Christian? Affluent, self-important, with his nose in the air? Or meek, retiring, and turning the other cheek?
God says he sees none of that. He doesn’t picture his children as one or the other. He looks for a heart that is focused on him.
1 Samuel 16:7 tells us the man or woman we might see as the perfect Christian may not be the one God selects to do his will.
“But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.’ ”
When we choose to be used of God, that’s when we begin to take on the appearance of a Christian. People will no longer see us on the outside. They will look at us on the inside. They will see love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. It will come out in what we say and do. People will see us through God’s eyes. We will become Christians to them.
God sees our intent, not how we dress. It’s our heart that matters to him.
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