As an Interior Designer, I work with all different types of interior finishes. Earlier this week I was selecting a window film for a client… and chose one that is slightly transparent, yet still provides privacy. It has a really cool texture, but that’s besides the point.
This week, I had a particular moment where I felt the Lord asking me about my personal transparency. Transparency is really a cool concept to think about…. until the Lord twists it and it hurts. I starting thinking about how so many times as Christians we don’t do “transparency” very well. We put on this personality and appearance that everything is perfect, and we’re living the American Dream… whatever that is. Even we we try to be transparent… it’s like we still want that privacy. No one likes feeling vulnerable or like they’re on display. No one enjoys their “stuff” being on display… or heaven forbid someone thing less of you.
Today, I sense a major uprising of “little secrets”. Even in the church, so much is done in the dark and in the secret. What if everyone was truly exposed for their true self? What if each person no longer had one foot on each side of the fence? What if believers stopped putting on airs, really got to the heart of the issue, and recognized that we are nothing without Christ? What if we truly were imitators and loved each other with a godly passion? What if we were a real friend and no longer talked about each other in ways that are not uplifting? What if the Body of Christ was a true representation of our Savior?
It may seem odd, but so many things I do in the Design field have a correlation to something Spiritual. But this analogy of the window film is rocking my world. Believers are appearing like the window film I was talking about. We try to give the appearance that we are transparent… but we are still “private”. We hide behind this little mask.
What if we really lived as Christ? How would the world be impacted? What kind of change would we see? What would the world see? Jesus!
