Does your teenager think you’re cool?

My teenage son who is off at college recently told me his friends think I’m cool! REALLY, me cool?!

Being cool to my son’s friends was not on the top of my list of desired achievements but what person doesn’t want to be liked by others? 

The interesting part is that his friends have not yet met me in person which means they have arrived at their assessment based off my son’s representation of who I am.  I admit, I like how he represents me.  He has even convinced ME that I’m someone special.

This has caused me to question how I represent others.  Do I choose to speak of their positive qualities or do I focus on the negative areas which may need some growth?  We all have areas in our lives that could use growth and no one wants to be known by those areas alone.

Better yet, how do I represent Christ?  Would others assess Him to be Faithful, All-powerful, Just, Righteous, Holy, Patient and Worthy based off my representation of who He is? 

How about you, how do you represent other?  How do you represent Christ?  Do others think highly upon Him because of your representation?

⁸ Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.   Philippians 4:8 (NIV)

 

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