The Art of being Uncool

How cool are you? I guess it depends on your definition of cool, right? When I was younger it was a death sentence to be uncool. I wore the latest fashions and used the latest lingo and watched the hippest shows. It permeated everything I did from the glasses I wore to what car I drove.

Now that I’m a Christ follower, I realize that working so hard to be cool detracted from my focus on God. After all, do you think when you die their will be a line for cool people and another for uncool people? No, there will be one line going up, and another going down, and it won’t make a bit of difference at that moment if you had cool rims on your car or the latest hip hair style.

If you spend your life trying to show people how young and hip you are, you probably haven’t spent enough time showing them how Christian you are. If people focus on you, they won’t see who is supposed to be living in you.

Christ spent his life hanging out with the uncool people. Who are you hanging out with?

“Jesus, thanks for loving us no matter how uncool we are. Thanks for seeing what’s inside us, and help us to understand that that’s the important thing. Amen.”