The Mannequin's Clothes

MANY STORES have mannequins. Another word for a mannequin is a dummy. The job of the dummy is to magnify the fashion of the store. They put clothing on the dummy and the dummy is supposed to act as an attraction to lure the customer into the store.

They are to look at the clothes on the dummy and be drawn into the store. The clothes on the dummy didn’t come from the dummy. The clothes on the dummy came from the owner of the store and the owner of the store put clothes on the dummy so that folks outside would be attracted to come inside based on how the dummy looks. Need I say more?

On our best day, we are nothing but dummies. What God wants to do is dress us up. He’s given you a new nature. He’s given you a new life.

He wants to dress you up and He’s saying, “Listen, dummy, I want you to attract people to Me not only when times are going good but when times are going bad. Your job is to make Me look good.” God is after making sure that He looks good.

If you can make this switch, a small switch because it only involves one thing, and yet a whopping switch because it involves everything, God will be glorified in your life.