| There's loads of different bumper stickers you can get for your car, like; 'Cover me, I'm changing lanes' or 'I love cats ... they taste just like chicken' or 'Where there's a will, I want to be in it.' The stickers are a reflection of the person who owns the car, because what's on the outside says a lot about what's on the inside.
God's not overly concerned about what we look like on the outside but He is totally bothered about what's going on, on the inside, 'Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart' (1 Samuel 16:7). What's happening on the inside matters more, because it determines who we become. What's happening on the inside is going to come out of your mouth and your speech and actions reveal your true underlying beliefs, attitudes and motivations. What you're storing up on the inside affects every decision you make. As it says before today's reading, 'The good man brings good things out of the good he has stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.'
What are you storing up in your heart? What does your speech and behaviour say about you? Do you need to throw out some rubbish? 'Fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out' (Romans 12:2). |
