Branded

Have you noticed the Under Armor craze around us?  I am not sure about other parts of the country, but kids around here look like they are drowning in the Under Armor logo.  It is ‘the brand’ to wear.  I have never understood how having a certain label or symbol on your clothes made them worth 5 times as much money.  Kids seem to think they will only be cool or accepted if they are wearing that symbol.

Let me ask you this.  Do you want to be accepted, to be in God’s ‘in crowd’?  That brand is free.  That brand gets you relationships that are not based on how much your clothes cost.  That brand is worth devotion and praise.  The brand Jesus puts on your heart when you repent of your sins and accept him is the only brand that keeps you out of hell and guarantees eternal life in heaven with him.  Now THAT is a valuable brand.  People tried selling it years ago, but they were wrong.  You can’t buy this brand with money, it is much too valuable for mere money. 

No one can take their special clothes they buy here on earth with them when they die, or when Jesus returns.  You can’t run up and pack all of your Under Armor.   Clothing brands cannot change who you are, or make you beautiful to God.   Only Christ’s brand can do that.  Only Christ’s brand on your heart.  Wouldn’t it be great if people worked as hard for Christ as they do to acquire certain things or brands of things?  We would live in a different world!

Ephesians 1:13 ----And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit,

Revelation 7:2-3 ----'And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.'