Silly Bands….

The latest craze….I would say. Everywhere I go, I cannot help notice the bunch of neon colored bands on people’s arms. I was puzzled at the obsession but after inquiring about these glowing bands, I came to find out that there was a lot more to them that meets the eye!  After discovering that once these bands are removed from the arm and placed on a surface an amazing shape takes place. Come to find out that there is a whole array of shapes, ranging from animals, figures, super heroes, extra! Well, a giraffe being my favorite animal, I was on a mission to find one. Thanks to my daughter Kristen, who knows all about these bands, being a children’s pastor, managed to retrieve one out of the goodie bag in children’s church! That is when the Lord started speaking to me. Never judge a book by its cover…..I will never look at another silly band as it is but what its image is designed to become!  There is a beautiful image in each one of us, maybe not to the eye immediately but give it space, time and a place to take shape and walla, there it is! There is a scripture that speaks about this, 1 Sam. 16:7b ~ But the LORD said to Samuel, ” For the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”  I have been challenge to see people as God sees them, complete in Him, giving Him glory and beautiful in His sight, not what we see on the outward but what we are created in His image to be!  He is the potter and we are the clay and He makes all things beautiful in His time.