What a disappointment! I was looking forward to having a banana smeared with peanut butter for my breakfast this morning. But it was not to be. When I peeled the banana, the entire thing was black. Not a bruise here and there. But black. As in, rotten.
I've never had that experience with a banana before. It looked great on the outside. Perfectly yellow with just a few flecks of brown. It felt like a banana should feel when it is perfectly ripe. But it's what's on the inside that counts with a banana. And what was on the inside was ugly. Black. Something was rotten in Denmark, if I may borrow a Shakespearean phrase.
Yuck. No banana for breakfast today.
As I've been thinking about that banana, I have realized how often many of us are like that banana. We look good on the outside. But inside there's a blackness. Anger. Resentment. Bitterness. Sin.
We look good. We may sound good. We may even smell good! But what's inside is rotten. And it's what's inside that counts.
"Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts. And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." (Psalm 139:23-24)
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