Your inside matters most.

 Blind pharisee! first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.Matthew 23:26 NKJV 
  

                        

 In the above verse, Jesus Christ though was talking to the pharisees, He was talking to us all.

 When a cup is faced down and the outside is clean and sparkling, you are attracted to that cup and you want to make use of it. When you pick up the cup in an attempt to use it and the inside is dirty, as humans you drop it in a dishwasher for cleaning and if the dirts are hard to remove, most times you discard that cup cause you don't want to be embarrassed by its dirt. 

 This analogy is applicable to us as humans. Most times we put up a show when in reality that's not who we are on the inside, we dress all covered up because that's one of the tenets of our religion, we give alms because we want our community to see us as generous, we pretend to love our neighbors when we don't care if they have had food to eat.e.t.c. Truth is our outward motives may make us look clean on the outside while the inside of us is laddened with filth. It's hard keeping up with being who we are not and soon people around us would see past the charade,knowing us for who we really are and may end up discarding us as friends when they realise they probably can't deal with our filth. 

 Like psalm51:10 says,we can ask God to create in us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us. He is the only one that can cleanse our insides. When He renews and awakens His spirit within us, our insides that has being made clean would radiate outwardly. We won't be scared of what might be seen if as a cup to be used, people turn our insides out. 

NB. You can always get your insides cleaned by God but first you have to look inwardly and accept your insides are filthy, you have to accept you need cleansing and with a contrite heart call on God and ASK him to grant you his spirit. Unlike the analogy, God will never discard us,He is always ready to make us clean and white as snow. 

What's in your cup?