The Transparent Life

Transparency is a useful thing. Why, I remember when I put leftovers in the refrigerator and I had to open the lid to see what was inside then shut it real quick ... if you know what I mean. Those days are past because now we can see through the container to see if it still looks edible, if there's more in the container than should be, and to see if there's anything moving!

 

God wants our lives to be a display of truthfulness, much like the transparency of those storage containers. Ephesians 4:24 says, "put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth."  I like how F. W. Robertson explains truth as a "thing of habit rather than of will." Unfortunately, many Christians live lives of insincerity masked by imitation holiness. One of the best exercises in understanding how God knows us is to stand before a mirror naked – okay, I didn’t say it was pleasant.  Every wrinkle, blemish, scar, roll exposed, nothing hidden from view. God's motive in exposing the condition of the heart is quite simply to make it righteous and holy according to The Truth of Himself. That's when we can live a life unmasked, transparent to a world that needs to see Christ in us.