Camouflaged with the World

When I was in the U. S. Air Force I was issued several different sets of uniforms. A few of those sets were the camouflaged uniforms. The purpose of the camouflaged uniform is to help the wearer blend in with his surroundings – to get lost in the crowd of trees, shrubs and leaves. It’s easy to get lost in the backdrop of the forest if you look like the forest.

In the same way, it’s easy to “get lost” in the world if we look like everyone else. Many people, I’m afraid, have traded in their “light” colored cloak of Christianity for a suit which is colored and patterned so that it blends in with the rest of the world. There are many ways to look like the rest of the world. We can dress like them (no matter how immodest, distasteful, or vulgar it may be.) We can talk like them, and participate in their jokes, vulgarity, and disrespect for God. We can act like them - drink what they drink, do what they do, and play what they play.

Romans 12:2 says, “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” 1 John 2:15 says, “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” God clearly teaches us to not conform ourselves to this world. We shouldn’t blend in, but rather stand out! God expects his children to be different from the world. Peter writes, “But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light” (1 Peter 2:9). May we always strive to be “seen” as a child of God in all aspects of our life.