Keeping Up Appearances
Well isn't the guy in the picture above a handsome lad!
Appearance does matter or does not matter?
Things have been absolutely busy here at the college as of late, with working hard applying to Churches in preparation for the summer to papers, exams and life in general.
It has been a while since I posted, so I figured thats would be something fun to do. Everyone around Maritime Christian College will understand what I have to blog about today. Its funny, even before I ever attended MCC, I loved to dress up.
I was never sure why, but I remember one occasion which perhaps formed this into me to wear a suit every Sunday and dress up on Chapel days.
In grade 12 things were happening quite fast in my life and more by the day I became more of a attention getter in school. All throughout middle school I strived to be in the "Cool" crowd and I was never there and was picked on lots. When I reached Highschool I played Football and became quite popular and more outspoken and known, at least throughout the school. What I was known for at that time, perhaps people got the wrong impression because of the crowds I hung out with.
It was around Grade 12 when I began to play a bigger role in my Church as well, I was serving communion, working with the youth and even leading in the schools YFC program.
In grade 12 I was removed from the YFC executive because I allowed Football higher priority for my attention, but that is not the purpose of this blog. I remember goign to school one day wearing this T-Shirt which said Good, Better, and Best on it and it was one respect innapropriate for me to be wearing. Under the good was a man alone, then teh better section a boy and a girl, then under the best section it showed two girls clinging to this one guy.
There were a couple instances that Christian friends talked to me about this shirt and I talked then moved on. I recall one Sunday when I was called on to serve the emblems and this is the tear jerker.
I was wearing this shirt and was in front of my entire congregation serving these emblems and on this particular day I noticed my Dad as I gave him the communion emblems, I can recall his face to this day. My Dad had told me not to have this shirt and I disobeyed, which on this day I proved my rebelliousness, but for what gain.... to profess myself a Christian, in favor of immorality!
Thats not really what I thought and I to this day am against such things, but as a young Christian in highschool, I did not realize the message I was sending to those around me.
I know God would never condemn me based on my clothing, but the reason I believe that I truly choose to dress up on Sundays and now chapel days is for the sake of respect. This respect is not for the old people of the congregation, nor is it the people my age who say... why do you dress up?. But it is the respect which I owe to Christ Jesus, for His sacrifice for me. If anything I want people to notice, it is not why I am wearing a suit, but who I am wearing a suit for and most importantly, who I wish to stand for. As I notice more of my colleagues joining me in dressing up for Chapel, I note the influence one person can have on society.
But it is not about me, nor is it about you... but it is about the influence that God can make through each and everyone of us, even if it is through how we dress.
Let us make known we are Christians, if not by how we dress, but by our behaviors... Let us Stand united for what Christ wants and for His Glory!Amen!
posted by Darrell @ 12:44 PM
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