If it looks like a duck

This morning I was sitting in the waiting room of orthodontist's office when a young man walked through the door. He came in and looked past the receptionist into the main area of the building. When the receptionist asked if she could help him he looked rather confused. He gestured for her to wait a minute and he pulled out his cell phone.

He turned around and went outside and I could hear him talking to someone. A few minutes later he came back in and asked where the loan department was. The receptionist kindly told him that he wasn't in a bank. He persisted and she tried to explain that this was a medical office and that the bank was across the street.

He apologized and left. Then the receptionist said to me, "we must look like a bank because we get someone in here every day looking for the bank." I remarked that I wasn't surprised because the new office didn't look like a medical building at all.

It got me thinking about how we look to the world. Most of us don't look like the typical Jesus freaks of the seventies. We look pretty normal. So what sets us apart from the rest of the world? I hope that it is our compassion and the way we respect and love one another. We don't want people to be confused when they see us. As Christians we want people to look at us and see Jesus.

There is an old saying: If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck. Let there be no mistake. If we look and act like Jesus we want people to know they are seeing the real thing, a follower of Jesus.

Cal