Dirt in Hidden places

The irony of my job is when I have the least amount of customers coming in to dine at the end of my shift I am super exhausted. The only exception to that is if I have a storm of customers coming in at all times. One faithful day the restaurant was so empty that I started to clean places I have never thought to clean, and went at it for hours. The funny thing is this place is cleaned ‘properly’ before the beginning of every shift. So you could imagine my shock when I found dirt in hidden places, even places I thought where regularly visited and cleaned. After the intensive cleaning I said to myself “now I can actually say it’s clean!”  I was confident in saying that because even if you searched for all the hidden places they were all clean, at least for a little while.

I have always battled with the concept of there being a ‘Christian look’. I, through couple of incidents, learnt that you can’t put a face to what a Christian should look like. But that being said there is a range of characteristics you can hope to see reflected by every Christian, since we all strive to look like Christ(in Character).  I read Romans 12:2 a lot of times before it hit me. God says in Romans 12:2, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” The part where it says ‘but be transformed by renewing of your mind’ is basically cleaning up the hidden places in us. Why do I say that? Because you might be a person who never misses church or the most modest dresser or the person who arrives to church the earliest, yet you might have not been transformed and renewed by the renewing power of Christ! Yes in Christ we are new creations, but for us to be so we need to depart from our old ways, clean the dirt in the hidden places (places no one even knew existed in a person that ‘looks so Christian’). "Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.” Isaiah 1:18. When God said what He said in Isaiah 1:18, I don’t think He was talking about your cloth or your outside appearance.  I think what we can understand from God’s word is that we need to be transformed, transformation of the heart/mind. Don't feel overwhelmed by that because He will be performing the open heart surgery you just need to sign the waver!

Notes:

•    Don’t be fooled, Christianity doesn't have a look it has Character
•   For us to be renewed the transformation needs to be’ from the inside- out ‘

Stay Blessed<3