One perk about working in the fashion industry is that occasionally I’m given a ticket to a show! The fun thing about a fashion show is "people watching." There is A LOT of posing to be seen there, and this year’s NZ Fashion Week was no different. It seems that a “cool” event brings out the worst of people’s self importance.,which led me to think: “Why are all these people acting like they deserve to be there in the front row when the only reason they are here is that they were invited?” No one earns their way into a fashion show; they are given the ticket at the discretion of the designer.
It can be easy to despise the Pharisees because they are a bunch of posers, parading their good works before Jesus. But are we any better than that? Just as I was thinking I was above (and definitely cooler than) all the posers at the fashion show because I wasn’t posing, it can be tempting for me to think I’m above all those weak Christians who think that their good works can earn them brownie points with God, because I’ve learned all about how our good works don’t earn us points before God. Man, what a theology snob!
Back to the fashion show; if you don’t have a ticket you’re not coming in. Same goes for Heaven; the self important and proud (like me) are only acceptable to God because He has given us our divine tickets for entry to eternal life with Him. We are saved from His rejection because Jesus earned our ticket for us.
In the immortal words of Lecrae “If heaven ain’t a gift then I ain’t getting’ in”.
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