Representation

First of all I will say that although I am not a religious person, I am a man who is very heavy in my faith. Now to the point. I was on youtube wastching some Sinbad stand up comedy. He told the audience he would answer their questions about something. This is how one went


Person in audience: Should a christian own a mercedes?
Sinbad: If he can't get a Bentley he should. It's how big is your faith. If your faith is only Mercedes faith, thats all you should have.

Funny but very true. See a lot of people get the idea, and I don't know where it started, that christians aren't supposed to be flashy. They are supposed to lead separate lives and be humbled.  Just because the bible says to lead a separate life didn't mean to separate yourself from luxuries in life. Any Christian that holds themselves back and says they do it for God, really needs to go back and read the bible again. No where does it talk about God blessing his children with poverty or famine.

 If you are a Christian then its more important for you to have nice things. You are Gods child. The bible even refers to you as his bride. So you can see this from two different angles. As a parent would you want your child walking around with nothing? How about as a husband or wife? Would you want your spouse representin you in the cheapest you can find? No. Thats why as men, we like to buy our women clothes and girly stuff. Lol. We like to show people what we've done for our ladies. Thats our pride. You are not considered a trophy, but you are a representation of what we are capable of.

Same goes for our children. A parent feels a certain way (or at least should) when they can't dress their kids in the nice clothes. When their kids feel like they don't have as much as the other kids and its true. They feel looked down on when their representation is bad. They know the other parents are talking about em! Even more they know their kids are feeling a certain way about it too.

So as his child or his bride, however you want to look at it, God wants us to show him off. He wants people to know he treats his kids right. His bride is taken care of. He wants us to be humble not raggedy. You can be humble with luxuries. When your humble with luxuries it just means you don't look down on others who don't have it. You are happy and proud you have them. When you start looking down on others is when you lose that humbleness. So allow God to bless you how he wants and show others how much he can do for you. .