I caught an episode of Jessica Simpson’s ‘The Price of Beauty’ this week and I was moved by it, but moved in a way than I expected to be.  The idea of the show is to travel the world and find what beauty means in different cultures.  In the first 15 minutes of the show it was super clear that Jessica, a girl raised in the church who professes Christ, has not a clue about who she is and what she is called to do or who she is called to be.  She blurts out in an interview that ‘I just want to find who I am from the inside out, I have been told all of my life who I am from the outside and who I should be, now I need to find out who I am.’

This is a young lady who grew up knowing Jesus Christ in some way shape or form, but yet wanders to the ends of the Earth meditating at a Buddhist temple trying to find inner beauty and peace.  Her worldview isnt shaped, its been bought…bought through the glamor, the gawking, and material praise that shapes most of our lives today.  What if Jesus meant all those things He said? What if the words He spoke were true?  What if our only purpose on this Earth is to praise Him, have an intimate relationship with Him and help others know His Hope, His Love, and His Purpose?? What if everything He said was true and it shaped our worldview…how would our lives look then? I think it would be much harder for people to go to Hell, and for children to fall asleep with empty belly’s at night.  I think that a little girl wouldnt fall asleep tonight somewhere in Asia to be woken in the morning to perform sexual acts in order to eat to live…what do you think?

What if He meant every word in Matthew when He said, “For ​​I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; ​​I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; ​​naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you ​visited Me; ​I was in prison, and you came to Me…Truly I say to you, ​​to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.’ -Jesus
He did.

more tonight…