Window Display...
Sometimes you walk by a store and
you’re stopped in your tracks by the window dressing.
And even when you’ve told yourself you
have no time for shopping, you’re saving your money or you don’t need new
things, you find yourself walking into the store because of the absolutely
gorgeous window display, and end up buying not only what you saw on the display
but more... because the shopping monster that was beautifully curtailed by you
was unleashed by just an enticing window display!
I know how important a widow dressing is. I have a friend who worked for a top designer brand and had the responsibility of what to put on the window, and how to put it. It's a tough job... It takes time. And God took His time with us to make us His window display.
As Christians, we are “ a planting of the Lord for the
display of his splendor.”Isaiah 61:3 (NIV)
We are window dressings
of Christ! His bill board advertisement and runway models of this life He’s
given us that is good, that is full, rich and satisfying. But it feels like
once they put some of us on the window of ‘grace shop’, we just get silly and
muddle the whole display up so bad that it drives potential ‘customers’ away.
Instead of displaying this splendor, a
lot of people are distorting it with the way they choose to interpret life, so
much that people aren’t even tempted by what we display in the name of the
Lord. We give up so easily. Judge so harshly. Love so sparingly. Fold under
trials, and are spoilt sulking babies who refuse to STAND in the face of
illusions of the 'shadow of death(Psm 23:4)' in the next room where our answer waits for us to grab it.
It hurts to hear people talk about
‘church people’ with so much disdain, pain and mockery... it hurts because
they’re far from the truth, and more so, because when you sit with them and
listen, they are justified for their offense because they truly have been hurt,
so hurt that they go beyond reason in their pain. Thus they’re offended not
just at the store owner and the window display, but at the creative director of
the store, the whole management and board of directors... at God!
Have you seen how there’s a backlash
for one wrong move when an ad is displayed? Either because the people perceive
it to be racist or feel its body shaming a certain group etc, the company sufferers
lose and insults for an ignorant decision in its ad, which equals to a window
display.
How are you displaying God? How are you
displaying this grace and love? Are the people blaspheming God because of you?(Romans2:24)
Let’s do better, let’s be better this
year.... less greed, more integrity, less selfishness, more love.... just less
of us that distorts the view of grace and more of God, leaning on Him so the
world can see a true picture of grace, how it truly makes perfect the
imperfect, how it truly beautifies and they get changed by it... When they stop
in their tracks because of the gospel your live preaches without even talking
to them, and then they step into this life you display just to ‘window shop’,
and when they are in, they cant help but be consumed with what they see, and
keep getting more, that they become the window dressing for the next person.
“Throughout the coming ages we will be the visible display
of the infinite, limitless riches of his grace and kindness, which was showered
upon us in Jesus Christ.”
Ephesians 2:7 TPT
“We have become his poetry, a re-created people that will
fulfill the destiny he has given each of us, for we are joined to Jesus, the
Anointed One. Even before we were born, God planned in advance our destiny and
the good works we would do to fulfill it!”
Ephesians 2:10 TPT
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