You Have To Look To Evaluate
A woman in Minnesota recently got a big surprise, but not a very pleasant one. She and her daughter were watching a TV show that talked about marriage when her daughter said that she had never seen her mother’s wedding dress. She had seen pictures; but not the actual dress.
So, the mother decided to go get the box in which the dress was preserved down and show it, realizing that she herself had never actually looked at it, either. It had just been in the preservation box since her wedding, 14 years earlier.
When she opened the box, though, she got a not-so-happy revelation: the dress that she had held onto for all those years was not her own dress! In a great line, the woman stated, “It’s a beautiful dress. It’s not my dress.” [Source]
But consider what would have happened if they had not actually opened that box and examined the dress. For the rest of her life, the woman could have just assumed that the dress in that box was the correct one for the simple reason that she did not take the time to actually look at it and evaluate it.
On an infinitely more important level, how many people live their religious lives this way?
How many people live their lives doing religious things and believing they are doing just what God requires, but they have never taken the time to open His Book to really evaluate and examine what it says? When they do, is it not possible they may see–maybe quite clearly–that what they have been doing is not what He demands?
It may be beautiful to them. But it’s not faithful Christianty.
And when they do discover that, what will their reaction be? To the woman’s credit, she immediately started making efforts to return the dress and find hers, though she knows the odds are long that it will be found after all this time. Still, she is making a clear effort to get things right.
When we discover that we are not obeying the will of God, are we so eager to get rid of the wrong–even if it feels comfortable–and seek to do what is right?
Let’s all be willing to examine God’s Word with a mind that is willing to change in conformity to what He demands, not just what we assume is right.
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AUTHOR: Adam Faughn
