The Upside Down World, Week 10, Day 2
by David Joynt on November 13, 2017
Stress Test Devotional April 20
April 20, 2024
LUKE 18:11
We recognize that the queen has too much investment in her appearance. Beauty is an unstable quality that will decline with age, and will vary with the “eye of the beholder.” Undue concern about our own looks makes us a prisoner to others’ attention and admiration, and feeds our own narcissism. Besides, good looks are hardly a credit to us and more a gift and consequence of our gene pool. If your aim is to be, ever and always, the handsomest man or most beautiful gal, your disappointment is inevitable and your aim misplaced. You will build shallowness into your own character!
But what about the Pharisee—surely his concern about righteousness runs deeper doesn’t it? A lawful man is different from a thief, who victimizes others, from a rogue who seduces and harms women, from an adulterer who breaks promises and destroys families, from a tax collator who profits from the suffering of his own people.
What are you invested in?
Why are you invested in it?
FAMILY TIME— Pass around a mirror. What do you see? Who is the worst sinner you know?
