Sunday, June 13, 2010

A New Revelation…

As I sat in the Dubai Airport…a very Muslim country as you may know…
I was struck by the beauty of a woman walking with her husband in the terminal.

Now I can’t say that it was her face that caught my attention…but it was a gracefulness about her.
The way she slowly strolled along, with confidence in her step.

She was wearing a simple black outfit…you may have seen them…the ones that very conservative Muslims wear…where all you see is a rectangle around her eyes.

It made me think of all the ways that people try and get attention. How people try to get noticed because of their hair, their makeup, their clothes, their figures, etc…

Yet, this woman didn’t get my attention because of any of these reasons…she was beautiful to me, even if I have no idea what she looked like under her attire.

She walked tall, She had a bounce in her step…

As Christians, we should be that way…graceful because who is in us, not because of how we look or the attention we are trying to get externally.

Part of me wanted to grab some black outfits and throw them on everybody…

If we covered ourselves up, and played the game on a level field, how could I tell who you are, without all the external “beauty” helps…

After all, God says that beauty comes from within, if we really all believed that, and I mean believed it in our gut, we would also have a confident stroll as we glide down the terminal with Jesus in our hearts…

1 comment:

Jen said...

I love this! Thanks for such a wonderful reminder! :)