So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
(Romans 6.11
NRSV)
Several years ago, a barbers' supply company held a large convention in a metropolitan city. To show the world how good their products were they organized a publicity stunt. They went to the worst section of town and brought back the dirtiest and most helpless drunk they could find. They presented him on the stage. Everyone saw how dirty and unkempt his hair and beard were. Then they took him out and cleaned him up. They shaved him. They shampooed and styled his hair. They sprayed him with cologne. They washed him with a new kind of soap they were trying to sell. They bought him a new suit, a new shirt, new tie, and shoes. He looked great. He looked and felt like a new man. They brought him back to the stage to show him off, saying to all the world, "This is what our barber supplies can do for you." The audience could hardly believe that this was the same man they had seen earlier that day. Looking at the man on stage no one would ever have guessed that he was living in the streets just a few hours before. He was completely changed.
The very next day the organizers of the convention went looking for this man again. Would you like to guess where they found him? That's right--lying in some gutter, filthy and drunk! They changed him on the outside, but not his soul on the inside. Jesus can do that if we let him or share him.
Dear Jesus, change my soul and fill it with your love, and help me to share you with someone who needs you. Amen.
Ron
Newhouse
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