I recently asked a few questions to my facebook friends in regards to their favorite T-shirt, song or rear car window decal... the question was: What does it say about you? The thing is we are constantly portraying an image to others of what we are. We wear a shirt representing our favorite sport and label ourselves and X, Y or Z "fan." Keep in mind the X,Y and Z are simply factors representing team's names or logos, not that there are many of us running around with jerseys declaring our love and dedication to the last three capital letters in our alphabet. But we do declare to others our support of stuff and often do so boldly.
What declaration of you or portrait of yourself are you giving others. Perhaps you have a shiny chrome symbol of a curvy shaped woman on your mud-flap... would that tell others that is what you are... or that is what you are looking for? What does it say if you have a silhouette sticker of curvy female with a wings and a halo opposite a equally curvy silhouette with horns and a pitchfork??? Does it mean you are good and bad or you want to be good or bad??? Does a "my child is..." x, y or z sticker (again factors not indicating any children of being good little y's) declare a parent proud of their child's accomplishments or a arrogant parent telling others that they are way better because their child is X, Y or Z. Think about it! What are you trying to say or portray?
What does the name brand on your SUV declare of who you are? Does the brand of purse or sunglasses paint a portrait of who you are? What does your profile picture say about you? What does your status bar say about you? The image we want others to see is sometime real and sometimes fantasy. Sometimes we want everyone to think we have it all together when the world is falling apart all around us.
What would a truthful rear window decal declare? What would are real sticker look like? Broken hurting driver inside? Angry frustrate failure behind the wheel? Pompous arrogant ignoramus? Maybe the real us should never be seen at all, perhaps mask, wishful stickers and fake status statements should prevail?
Personally my back window decal shouts out the name of my 12 year old boy's football team... Go Muddogs! My favorite T-shirt has a armless legless black night shouting, "It's just a flesh wound" and my status bar sometimes makes no sense at all. I have some close friends I share some deep dark painful junk in my life with. With those few friends I expose the real me and we grow stronger in our relationship with Christ as we share our struggles openly in these safe relationships. To the rest of the world that sees me, I hope they see in my words and actions that I may be a little crazy, but I am trying to be more like Christ in what I do and say. I do not have it all together and I hope to never act like I do. And when everything is falling apart I have a few friends I lean on and one Great Savior I can always go to... I hope my status bar points to me less and to Him more.
