If we are made in the image of God why do we spend so much time trying to look like everything else but Him. Why do we spend our time money chasing the image of the world. Why do we look at the world and say I want that. I need to look like that. Dress like that. Spend my money like that. Have that. Eat like that. Act like that. Our days and hours are filled with trying to conform to the world. But Romans says not conform to the world. Maybe the problem in our world and in our Church is that we are spending to much time trying to look like the world. Trying to fit in so much that we are not even noticed as a Christian. And this is not just for us as individuals but I think for us as families. We have lost the balance in our culture to be in the world but not of the world. I think we have embraced both of those concepts. Yet our image is to reflect the Lord. Who we are is supposed to reflect who Jesus was. What if we spent our time forming our lives in Him. What if we wanted to look, and act like Him. What if we wanted to give like He did, love like He did. What if we spent our money as He wanted us too. Ate and took care of our bodies like he would want us too. What if we spent more time tending to our soul than tending to all the needs of the world and who they want us to be and do. What if the Church embraced this mentality? Would there be less activity and more sol care int he Church and in our families? What if the church stopped looking like the world in its activity and started to act more like Christ by tending to people's souls. What if the church was not a place where we just continued the activity of life when I came. But it was a place of refuge for tired and weary souls where the activity was limited and effective and soul care was abundant and overflowing. What if our lives were like this as well? I think if it was we would see the image of God more and it would not be fleeing in our lives and in our Churches.
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