The BBC News website carried an article with this awesome picture today. See the article here.
Yes, in the picture are a girl, a building and a car. Yet the car seems to blend in with its surroundings. It is almost invisible.
The art student pictured developed a special paint which makes the Skoda virtually invisible.
OK, so she didn’t develop special ‘invisibility paint’, she just painted the car to blend into the background. Move the car and it will stick out like…. an oddly painted car.
This picture made me think about myself though.
Am I virtually invisible? I am a citizen of heaven, a child of God. I am supposed to be in the world but not of the world. I’m supposed to be noticeable, to stand out (in a good way). People are supposed to see me and wonder what it is that I have that they are missing.
I’m not supposed to blend in and look like everything else around me.
Do I achieve that? Do YOU achieve that? Or are we just blending in with the world. Can the world see any difference between us and them?
Or are we like the car in the picture above. Blending in, barely noticeable?
You may be invisible, but like the car in the picture, only when still? And do you stick out as odd when motion starts?
It seems we stand out as Christians when we move around, and some brand us as odd. But blending in like the car will not work, one has to move eventually.
Oh yeah. I TOTALLY blend.
Umm….
You’re awesome Katdish
I Stick out, and am proud of it. I guess I’ve come to a point in my life where it’s all or nothing for Jesus. Many have tagged me as transparent on my blog and that is just fine with me. Sometimes I think, really, isn’t that what God expects of us, and if we had some one following us for their cause, just like Jesus has us, wouldn’t we want them to stand out and get as much PR and attention for us that they can? Now I realize there is good and bad P.R.; even for Jesus’ sake; we must have a balance. This is what I am learning as I desire to become more like Christ.
I’m glad that you stick out and are proud of it. God wants us to be seen for who we are, if not, are we really who we think we are?
I sometimes worry that I stick out for the wrong reasons. I love to life my faith outloud, but i think my follies are louder at times. It’s unfortunate.
God cares only that we try, the rest he can take care of. 🙂
Welcome to Rediscovering the Church By the way!
As a Christian, we all have graces and gifts, wherein we cannot help but “stick out.” We carry the fragrance of Christ!
In truth, when we battle those “season of sin”, we are painfully aware of how much we stick out because of the wonderful work of the Holy Spirit singing songs of deliverance, employing tools of healing, forgiveness, comfort, teaching, convictiion.
Sometimes, I think the honesty of the struggle against sin not only helps us to define the motivation of our heart, our true love and passion: But these struggles affect non-believers as they are helpless against the power of sin. We are not! We keep on struggling, not giving into the power of darkness and overcome sin. What a testimony. Light birthed out of darkness, the power of God.
How much more then do we stick out, walking as a light set upon the hill, in the joy of the Lord, full of hope, ever searching for more of Christ and less of us. Security defined!
As in all boundaries, we let the forgiveness and joy of the Lord in, and out goes the condemnation, the unwise act of comparing ourself to others.
Indeed, it is about His grace and learning to trust in His love!