This week was college week at school. Wednesday was "college shirt day" where teachers could wear shirts that represented the college or university they attended. Yippee! Anything to get to wear jeans to school, but I was in a delimma.
You see, my school is ACU! That's right-Abieline Christian University. The purple and white Wildcats. I dug deep until I found my two shirts and had to decide which to wear. One shirt had the school name witten in white block letters on the front the other had a small logo on the front with a large logo and ACU on the back.
The shirt with the white letters did not have a logo on the back it had 1 Corinthians 13:13 written on it in big letters all across the back. It would be hard to miss the verse. I looked at one and then the other and for a split second I thought "What if the school makes me take it off because it might offend someone?"
I was angry at myself for thninking that and immediately thought of the many things that offend Christ and many don't care. I decided I was going to wear the scripture shirt and represent! When my son was younger, I developed a life "verse" that I shared with him daily before he went to school, or out with friends and it is "remember who you represent."
This was my time to represent and I was allowing the trend of society to dictate what I wore because of a scripture on my back. I took the chance that I might be told "someone is offended" or "that is not within the guidelines" but that was a chance I was willing to take.
I wore my ACU shirt and I wore it proud. Some that understood complimented me on the boldness to wear it. To others, sadly, it might just have been seen as a school motto. I am grateful that God provided a way for me to attend this school and represent.....not the school-Him!
And now these three remain: with, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13
We are therefore ambassadors [representatives] for Christ, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. 2 Corinthians 5:20
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