Sometime ago, I met a beautiful young lady who was a little older than I and she looked marvelous. She had grown children and she still looked flawless; shape and everything, but for whatever reason, she was not pleased or satisfied with herself and decided to have surgery. For the life of me still to this day, I couldn’t understand that, b/c most people that I know that undergo such a surgery is….well large, however, this chick didn’t have any fat, rolls or nothing (only us big girls know what I’m talking about)!
From the outside, she appeared to be beautiful, fine and quite sexy, but on the inside, there is another story going on within her. This reminds me of Hannah in the bible. Elkanah couldn’t understand why she was so down, when he was giving her everything a girl could want and even more. The story on the inside of her was that she was longing for something so much deeper and unfortunately her husband couldn’t give it to her.
Perhaps we find ourselves battling with one story on the outside versus another story on the inside. Have you ever said to yourself or to others, “If they only knew!”? If the world could really read the story on the inside, I wonder often would they be able to handle it. Will they be in suspense because they are thinking one thing based off of what they see, but as the pages are turned, they become more and more confused and shocked at what is being revealed? Would they read a comedy that will give them many laughs, or maybe a story line filled with a lot of heartache and pain that will cause them to shed many tears. Perhaps they might read a horror story that will give them the scare of their lives. Whatever the story is, I’m sure one cannot read its content with the natural eye. I’m sure that whatever the story is, the ending of the story will not be complete with a surgery that will leave a scar, regardless the size, but a scar nonetheless on the outside and didn’t do anything for the inside.
I have lived this story so many times where the world is reading one story but the real story on the inside is constantly replaying to a one person audience and although they would like to turn it off, they can’t. They would like to see the same thing the world see but most of the time, what the world sees is just a cover never really able to read the details beyond the cover, the flashy colors, fancy writings and catchy titles. Life lesson: Never judge a book by its cover!
My prayer is for those of us who are dealing with issues on the inside that money, clothes, men/women and even surgery cannot fix, that we yield to the one is truly the Author of our soul. No matter what we long for, no matter how much money we got or they got, no matter how good things seem on the outside, the inside usually is where the real storyline lies and waits to be published. In the end, we must all seek Christ for complete wholeness!
Blessings,
CJ
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