Gigi's Blog

Today has the potential to be “one of those days.”  I’m 37 years old and have had a hysterectomy, so I’m not going through puberty.  So, that is not why I have a teenage style breakout on my face.  I have always had problems with my skin.  A few years back I started using a line of products that we can’t really afford, but I used them anyway because I can honestly say it is the only thing that worked. I’ve tried pretty much every product throughout my life that a person can buy for their skin.  In drug stores and dept. stores and for some reason my skin doesn’t really respond to any of it.  Well, I decided a few months back that even though my skin was at an ok place that just wasn’t good enough.  I needed “make-up optional” skin as the commercial boasted.  I went to the store and bought the entire line.  After four weeks of using it, I not only didn’t have “make-up optional skin” I have “make-up unoptional skin.”  I tried something else.  That was several weeks ago and my skin is awful right now.  I decided this morning I will bite the bullet and go back to was I was using before.  I thought “Ok. I’ll focus on my hair and really try to take the attention off my face.  I spent an extra long time straightening it and decided to spray it (which I don’t normally do).  It felt gross. I decided to brush it out to it wouldn’t feel that way.  Guess what??  Now my hair looks as if it’s full of dandruff, when in fact that spray that wasn’t supposed to flake did exactly that. 

How dare these companies prey on the vulnerable this way!  I trusted them and their products to do what they said.  I invested my money.  I did my part.  They didn’t follow through on their part.  This is false advertisement.  I feel lied to, because I have been.  I wish I’d never fallen for all this. 

You know what?  People feel this way about Christians.  I’m reading a book called Essential Church.  It’s basically giving the practical reasons that young adults drop out of church.  They feel like they’ve been falsely advertised to.  We tell them as children that Jesus loves them so much.  But as they reach the age that grace counts more than ever we tell them His love is conditional.  We tell them to act one way, as they watch us act another.  We smile at church so that everyone will think we have perfect families and get into the car and change clothes spiritually as soon as we’re off the church property.  We beg them to come to church, but turn our backs on them when they fall or if they decide to leave.  We promise them they can make it with the help of God, but they can’t count on us if they need help. 

It’s false advertisement.  The problem? The advertisement represents who they believe Christ is.  No wonder so many young people find comfort in bars and parties and gossip and gods. 

What’s the purpose of light??  To give a means to see something.  If a mechanic is under the car holding a flashlight so he can the motor of the car to be fixed, does the flashlight suddenly become responsible for fixing the car?  No.  It just provides the light. 

We are supposed to be the light of Christ.  To cause a person to see what they need to see. 

I am to shine so people can see Jesus.  So he through the Holy Spirit can do his thing.  But with every false advertisement, I truly believe our lights dim, because God won’t be mocked.  His light isn’t going out, but I believe our lights get dimmer and dimmer to allow people to see him.  I love it when Joyce Myer says that we are not “Holy Ghost Jr.”  I love that.  I can be me.  I can be real.  God is the one who does the changing.  I’m the light, I’m the tool.  He is the One in charge.  Whew.  Thank goodness. 

John 9

Spiritual Blindness

 ³⁵Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

 ³⁶"Who is he, sir?" the man asked. "Tell me so that I may believe in him."

 ³⁷Jesus said, "You have now seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you."

 ³⁸Then the man said, "Lord, I believe," and he worshiped him.

 ³⁹Jesus said, "For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind."

 ⁴⁰Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, "What? Are we blind too?"

 ⁴¹Jesus said, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.

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