Why Do We Wrap Gifts?
AnalogyObject Lesson★★★★THERE’S something I don’t understand about Christmas. Why do we wrap gifts? I don’t understand, and I certainly don’t understand paying folks to wrap them. Trust me, the person you are giving a gift to is not interested in your wrapping. Now, they may placate you by noticing the wrapping and telling you how pretty the bow looks, but in the end they are going to tear it off.
Wrapping paper and all the accompanying accessories are a camouflage that disguises what people are really interested in. We get all hyped and geeked when we see people wrapped well. They drive a well-wrapped car; they live in a well-wrapped neighborhood. They work at a well-wrapped job, they wear well-wrapped clothes, and they have well-wrapped money. But God wants to know what the wrapping is covering. He’s interested in knowing what is on the inside.
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The point
An analogy arguing that gift-wrapping is a distraction from what really matters, just as people are impressed by well-'wrapped' cars, jobs, and lifestyles while God cares only about what is on the inside.
The lesson
God cares more about who we are on the inside than what we look like on the outside.