Caught not Taught

2 Corinthians 3:2
The only letter of recommendation we need is you yourselves. Your lives are a letter written in our hearts; everyone can read it and recognize our good work among you. (NLT)

When it is time to locate a new work opportunity we get our resume ready by adding any new education we have obtained and the last place we worked. That plus cleaning ourselves up for the interview may not be enough. We ask some previous employers and maybe some prominent people we know to write us letters of recommendation.

It reminds me of a great birthday cake. It is covered with delicious frosting decorated with colorful flowerlike sugar filled ornaments. There are candles on top blazing to announce our age or at least how many decades we have seen.

It is not what is on the outside or what it looks like that really counts. The real test happens when we take a slice of that cake, cut off a small piece with our fork, and put it in our mouth. Then we find out if that pretty exterior was covering a delicious cake or a dry and tasteless pastry.

When someone looks at our lives, what do they see? The sharp dressing we do before attending church does not change who we really are. The fruit of our lives shouts out the truth. Are others changed because of who we are and not what we have taught? Do they catch the truth as we go about doing our good work amongst them?

Our outward appearance changes because of what we have been taught. Our inside changes because of what we have caught. The Holy Spirit places us in the right place and at the right time to catch it from those who are walking with God.