Can you handle the truth?

Luke 16:1-13
"... if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?" (v.11)

If you are not faithful in the trifling, you will not be faithful in the tremendous. If you are not faithful with the material how can you expect to be entrusted with the spiritual?

As I re-read the above it struck me that it’s not just about money. We have been entrusted with much more.  Every single responsibility of life is not just a chore, it’s a challenge of faith and faithfulness. Can God trust me with my job? Do I take pencils and participate in work gossip while maybe not working as hard as I can?  What about my kids do they reflect Christ? Am I raising them in a moral way?

How about the simple responsibilities? Are my clothes clean and respectable for someone my age? Is my make up Tammy Faye or Jennifer Aniston? Or do I really need make up at all? Maybe a clean face would be refreshing and real. No worries about smudges, runs or competing with other women. After all we say as Christian women that its Christ in us that makes us beautiful. Do we mean it?  I admit a touch of makeup would probably make me look less tired and aging, but I am tired and aging so what am I ashamed of? When someone talks about God that’s all I see anyway.

I hope you realize that I am not saying we should all go without make although it would be great, but take a look in the mirror. Too much? How about your hair? What about those shoes? Do you really need them to be brand name? And then we come to your wardrobe. You know your best friend and husband will never tell you but isn’t that a little short and tight for you? What kind of message are sending to those who are not saved and do not know you?

 I know that if a woman has three layers of foundation, applied mascara more than once that morning, hair extensions that don’t match, tight or short skirt and three inch heels I am not going ask her about God and I would be ever so surprised if she brought up His name.