OUTSIDE IN

Sometimes the outer shell seems tough

But we often tend to overlook the realization that

Whatever it is protecting, that’s on the inside is very fragile

If I were to wear my jacket inside-out

You would see the cuts that made the outside clean

Self-consciousness no longer a secret, as the world would look at me with an unusual face

“That’s disgusting, mind boggling and peculiar!”

Even worse, “Do you think you can hang with us, looking like this? Like crap?”

Ostracism is the new “in” and favor is “out”

She craves belonging from me, from you

Because at home, when she wears her inside-out, her family turns away and casts her out

Her desire to leave the outside in was never her choice

But that of those whom she thought loved her most

So when she comes into the four walls of the Temple, a place filled with the presence of God

Her experience overrides her desire and ability to know who He really is

All He wants is her life, but all she can offer is lies- she does not know that He already knows

The pain that she has been through

Every tear He caught in His hands and longed to comfort her weeping soul

She heard of Him, but never knew Him- her true Father, Comforter and Friend

But now that she’s here, she has to know (we are) her real family

And just like her, we once wore our outsides-in and in Him- there is no longer an inside or out

Rather we are naked, lit on fire, cleansed with every progressive step taken in Him

She’s beautiful, transformed and a new creature

She understands who she is in the One who knows her heart

No longer is she a degenerated soul,

For the world now sees His glory radiating from the inside out