Image Investment
Image Investment
Those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son. (Rom. 8:29)
Wendy looked at the price tag on the couch that had caught her eye. She groaned. It was so expensive! She imagined it in her living room. The colors and fabric would be a perfect match to the rug she had just paid off. She sat down on one of the plush cushions to calculate in her head how many extra hours she would need to work to pay for it. It would mean taking some early morning and late evening hours.
“Wendy! I was just thinking about you.” Wendy looked up and saw her friend Gwynn from church walking toward her. “I was putting together an e-mail list for our next Bible study and wondered if you had decided whether to participate. From what I hear, a lot of women have grown closer to the Lord through this one.”
Wendy had forgotten all about the women’s summer Bible study. She wouldn’t be able to do it if she worked more hours. In fact, she was already struggling to have her daily quiet time with her current schedule. She rubbed her hand longingly over the couch’s fabric. In her heart she knew the answer. Jesus didn’t care if her house looked like a picture out of Better Homes and Gardens. He did care about what she looked like inside. “I’d love to participate, Gwynn.”
In an image-obsessed world, we women are especially susceptible to believing we and our homes need to look like the perfect pictures in all the latest magazines. God, who does not look at our outward appearance but at our hearts, wants us to look more like His Son. “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matt. 6:21). Are you investing in a worldly image or in looking more like Christ?