Inside Out

Have you ever wondered why our insides are inside and not out? I mean I can think of what it would be like not to have skin. To be living beings in which our insides were seen all the time. It might make it quite easy for some operations. But think how ugly, how disgusting things would be. Seeing someones intestines, kidney or lungs we might just turn and go away, not befriending them at all.

But if our inside was outside, what would happen to our ideas of beauty? You know we look at the outside of a person and call them beautiful. Why? When I give a gift to someone, most of the time, the greatness of the gift is not in the wrapping. (I chose the word "greatness" to make myself look better) I usually do not spend any time at all on the outside of a gift. Nor do I pay much attention to the outside of a tackle box, tool chest or computer case. But to my dismay I have spent some time considering some bodily wrappings. Why don't we see skin as gut containers? We would have a whole new idea attached to "he's looking at me".

When you think about it, or when I think about it, the outside is just a blessing to cover the inside. I think God made us that way. We are protected from the inside by the outside. This is also true of our emotions, thoughts and judgments.

God allows us to have an inside place, out of the sight of others to process things. We can take the "stuff we are chewing on" and spend some time with it out of the sight of others. This allows us to go through a process and deal with things in a more beautiful manner, more loving. Some people condemn themselves for going through this process. They think they should be such that they have no need to work through things. I wonder if God has an inside?

If He does we must be in there, getting worked out. Maybe that is what is meant by being "in Christ". We are in the place of getting digested or working our way through the body of the Lord. I don't what to think of what the end result is.