It Didn't Look Right

 

I was putting away eggs a few days ago.  This one did not feel right and upon further inspection, it didn’t look right either.  I have never seen an egg shell with ridges and a rough texture.  At first, it looked like a golf ball, out of place.  This could not be an egg, at least not one I would want to eat.  It may be an egg on the inside but the outside was highly questionable.  It just didn’t look right.

Ephesians 4:17-24

The New Man

¹⁷ This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of^[a] the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, ¹⁸ having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; ¹⁹ who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

²⁰ But you have not so learned Christ, ²¹ if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: ²² that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, ²³ and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

In our former unregenerate lives, we had an outer covering that did not look right.  At salvation, the Holy Spirit came to dwell with us and changed us on the inside.  Our conduct should change so that our outer selves reflect who we are on the inside.  The world ought to be able to recognize us by our outer covering.  Let’s not let the world touch and look at us and not be able to recognize us as Christian.  They cannot know our hearts but they can examine our lives. 

You know what happened to the egg that did not look or feel like an egg.  I threw it out. Because it just didn’t look right.  Let that not happen to you.