In our culture, we spend bundles of money on marketing, advertising, and packaging things for sale.  Unfortunately, the packaging is often the best thing about these things.

The resources we spend on cosmetics and clothing pales in comparison to what we invest in those things that cultivate character.  

I know it’s easier to wash a car than it is to rebuild its engine. I get it. I don’t mean to suggest that we ignore appearances, but we must never get so enamored by aesthetics that we ignore ethics!  

We gotta do better!  While things may pass the ‘eye-test’ we need to become more discriminating.  We need to learn the difference between style and substance!

When Israel desired a king, Saul became the first.  He was tall and handsome but his rule ended disastrously.  Before David was anointed, God gave Samuel these instructions:

7 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.”

1 Samuel 16:7

It behooves us all to begin to check the contents of what and who we invest in. The old adage says, ‘all that glitters isn’t gold!’ 

Before you allow your eyes and desires to deceive you, ask, ‘What’s on the inside?’

Good Morning, I love you all!

ihs,

just adam