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God's Approval
'We are God's masterpiece ...' Ephesians 2:10
You'd think the last thing the rich and famous would want is poison and nasty bacteria pushed into their mushes. Yet 'botox' is a must have accessory. Why? Because youth and beauty is currency. We love our pop stars' super-sleek, our movie stars ultra-unblemished, top models baby-skin beautiful. The world seems to have a bigger pair of clapping hands if we are beautiful.
And so we get sucked in. We throw our allowance at the high street: a new pair of shoes, a designer hair-do, serious make-over, all in the hope that we might get the approval of others. Now there's nothing wrong with taking pride in your appearance, and sometimes a touch of retail therapy is just what the doctor ordered, but if we only feel like a somebody when we're wearing lippy, we've got problems.
You see, we can be like approval-addicts. If we're getting applauded because we look good, or we can kick a bag of air into a net, or we're top of the class, we feel great. But being pretty, being sporty, being clever is not the whole sum of us.
We get our approval from God. Heaven applauds us, not for what we do, but because God shines through us. We want people to think well of us, and yet Almighty God always thinks well of us: 'How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered' (Psalm 139:17 NLT).
written by Bob Gass
'We are God's masterpiece ...' Ephesians 2:10
You'd think the last thing the rich and famous would want is poison and nasty bacteria pushed into their mushes. Yet 'botox' is a must have accessory. Why? Because youth and beauty is currency. We love our pop stars' super-sleek, our movie stars ultra-unblemished, top models baby-skin beautiful. The world seems to have a bigger pair of clapping hands if we are beautiful.
And so we get sucked in. We throw our allowance at the high street: a new pair of shoes, a designer hair-do, serious make-over, all in the hope that we might get the approval of others. Now there's nothing wrong with taking pride in your appearance, and sometimes a touch of retail therapy is just what the doctor ordered, but if we only feel like a somebody when we're wearing lippy, we've got problems.
You see, we can be like approval-addicts. If we're getting applauded because we look good, or we can kick a bag of air into a net, or we're top of the class, we feel great. But being pretty, being sporty, being clever is not the whole sum of us.
We get our approval from God. Heaven applauds us, not for what we do, but because God shines through us. We want people to think well of us, and yet Almighty God always thinks well of us: 'How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered' (Psalm 139:17 NLT).
written by Bob Gass
