APPEARANCE

You guessed it.  I have already taken this 

character's photo out of my computer.

I guess I am throwing it out to you. I 

don't want the clutter in my computer.

You see, I am an old, old, old man and

I have some ideals that do not match 

with this age.  But, it makes me confess

that I look too much on the outward

appearance.

An example.  There was an evangelist

very active in evangelism when I was

younger.  He has since passed away.

But this brother's appearance was a 

turn off to me, so I more or less discounted

him, or ignored him and his ministry.

Why, he had enough hair on him as

a man that he would have needed a

beautician instead of a barber.  And

on top of that he had a funny looking 

little goatee.  How can some one looking

like that be a man of God?

But the last few years when I am reading

more broadly about the workings of God

in this present age, would you believe it?

God used this man to save thousands of 

people around the world and was used to

heal thousands of people also.

Maybe God does not look at people 

like I do.

"But the LORD said to Samuel,

'Don't judge by his appearance or 

height, for I have rejected him.  The

LORD doesn't see things the way you

see them.  People judge by outward

appearance, but the LORD looks at

the heart."

(1Samuel 16:7 NLT)