Tuesday... This is what we want to be, isn't it?

I found today's word over in Titus 2:10b (NLT). It says, "Then they will make the teaching about God our Savior attractive in every way." The word is attractive.

We really do want to be attractive don't we? If you saw how I looked in the mirror when I turned the light on in the bathroom this morning, you would laugh too. I laughed this morning then I got to work to make me look attractive. And you do too, don't you?

Now how we talk, how we act, how we respond makes "the teaching about God our Savior attractive in every way." It's too bad that we don't have a mirror to see how we look but we do. It's called the Bible.

The Message Paraphrase says verse 10b this way, "Then their good character will shine through their actions, adding luster to the teaching of our Savior." It also says in verse 8, "Then anyone who is dead set against us, when he finds nothing weird or misguided, might eventually come around." Being weird and misguided is not attractive, is it?

Also look at this. Proverbs 15:13 says, "A cheerful heart brings a smile to your face; a sad heart makes its hard to get through the day." Now a smile really make a person attractive. People will want to know why your happy.

Verse 15 says, "A miserable heart means a miserable life; a cheerful heart fills the day with song."

And then verse 30, "A twinkle in the eye means joy in the heart, and good news makes you feel fit as a fiddle." You know when a fiddle, a violin is tuned just right it can make such beautiful music with the master's hand playing it. And that is so true with our lives and that is such good news, isn't it?

So how we act and react and respond makes a tremendous difference in how attractive the teaching of God our Savior is in every way. And I want to be attractive for God, don't you? Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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