You’ve seen it happen. When life circumstances cut you down, what’s really “under the hood” shows up and sometimes it is pretty ugly.

You’ve heard the saying… “An apple a day keeps the doctor away”.  True or not, it is my practice to eat an apple every day.  Recently, I noticed that the top was showing some spoiling, so I thought, “I’ll just cut that part off and eat the rest.  When I cut off the part that was visibly offensive, I found that the whole thing was rotten to the core with only the surface areas appearing to be yet unspoiled.  It was clear, that given a few more days, even in the refrigerator, the whole apple would have been spoiled.

I had to take a picture because this is a perfect picture of the fact that the real problems are always “under the hood” so to speak.  The “spoiling” happens from the inside out.  Everything that causes deterioration begins on the inside and being “cut to the core” just reveals the nature of what was inside all the time.

You’ve seen it happen.  When life circumstances cut you down, what’s really “under the hood” shows up and sometimes it is pretty ugly.  The veneer that we wear becomes obvious to others and sometimes those seasons of raw exposure make for the end of a relational connection.  Being seen as a “rotten apple” so to speak adds up to the reality of being discarded by others.

I only know of ONE who gladly works with people who have been cut to the core and fully exposed… with all the rotten parts seen and known.  He is the Savior, Jesus.

I’m with Him.  He is making me knew for the inside out.  I love it!

Marion Lorence
Glendale Place, Resident Manager
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