It's hard not to judge a book by it's cover. If the cover happens to have a fluffy bunny on it, and says "How to Feel Loved", most people are going to be intrigued. If it has a picture of a very boring person and it says "The Denotative Encyclopedia of Contemporary Information Technology Jargon" and happens to look like it's made out of scrap metal, not many people are going to be interested.
If someone smiles a lot, physically fit, and happens to be a beautiful looking person, let's face it, most people would approach them faster than they would someone who is staring at the wall and looks like they have eaten nothing but bear claws and bon bons for about 14 years straight.
The apostle Paul would probably dare say that these people are one in the same.
As read by Jordan Henderson:
2 Corinthians 5:14 says: Christ's LOVE has moved me to such extremes. His LOVE has the first and last word in EVERYTHING we do. Our firm decision is to work from this focus center, that one man died for EVERYONE. That puts everyone in the same boat. He included EVERYONE in His death, so that EVERYONE could be also included in his life: a resurrection life, a far better life than people ever lived on their own. Because of this decision, we don't evaluate people by what they have, or how they look. We looked at the messiah that way once, and we got it all wrong (as you know), and we certainly don't look at Him that way anymore. Now we look inside and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is create ANEW. The old LIFE is gone, a new LIFE burgeons! All this comes from God who settled the relationship between us and Him, and then called us to settle our relationships our with each other. God put the world square with Himself through the Messiah, giving the world a FRESH START by offering forgiveness of sins. God has given us the task of telling EVERYONE what He is doing. We're Christ's representatives. God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences and enter into God's work of making things RIGHT between them. We're speaking for Christ himself now. Become friends with God. He's already a friend of you. How, you ask. In Christ. God put the wrong on Him who never did anything wrong, so we could be put RIGHT with God.
Who cares about the cover? Who cares about the pages, the ink on them, or the words they make, moreover? Why don't we care about what's behind it all? Why don't we help the route of the problem, to make sure that the words, the story, and the covering over it all is bound together for the purpose of Love?
