I was driving down the road the other day and saw something. I had to take a picture. I know you shouldn’t use your phone when you’re driving, probably especially when you're in, who knows how many lanes, in one of the busiest traffic areas of the city. Welcome to Dallas. Anyway, I still had to take the picture. I’m no Jimmy Olsen, but I know a good opportunity when I see one.
They say you can’t judge a book by its cover. Maybe that’s true, but most of us do, don’t we? That power washing truck was pretty dirty. Now, they might be the best power washers in Dallas. How do I know? Maybe how their truck looks is not at all a reflection of the work they do. Maybe they are just brilliant with their power washing. I guess I’ll never know.
Sometimes we judge a book by its cover. Sometimes we don’t call a power washing company because their truck is dirty. But sometimes the situation is worse. Sometimes our trucks are clean, but our insides are dirty. That’s the problem some of the ‘clean’ folks back in the day had. Jesus told them, “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness” (Matthew 23:27-28). Whoa. Clean on the outside, stinky on the inside. And such a stink can’t be cleaned by a good power washing. Clean bones are still dead bones. Such a situation requires more. It requires a resurrection.
It’s good to be clean on the outside. But “cleanliness is not always next to godliness.” It’s what’s on the inside that counts. It’s dangerous to take pictures on the highway. A person could get in a wreck doing such a thing.
They say you can’t judge a book by its cover. Maybe that’s true, but most of us do, don’t we? That power washing truck was pretty dirty. Now, they might be the best power washers in Dallas. How do I know? Maybe how their truck looks is not at all a reflection of the work they do. Maybe they are just brilliant with their power washing. I guess I’ll never know.
Sometimes we judge a book by its cover. Sometimes we don’t call a power washing company because their truck is dirty. But sometimes the situation is worse. Sometimes our trucks are clean, but our insides are dirty. That’s the problem some of the ‘clean’ folks back in the day had. Jesus told them, “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness” (Matthew 23:27-28). Whoa. Clean on the outside, stinky on the inside. And such a stink can’t be cleaned by a good power washing. Clean bones are still dead bones. Such a situation requires more. It requires a resurrection.
It’s good to be clean on the outside. But “cleanliness is not always next to godliness.” It’s what’s on the inside that counts. It’s dangerous to take pictures on the highway. A person could get in a wreck doing such a thing.
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