It’s the air we breathe. Image. Vanity. Appearance. We come by it honestly (sort of). After all, each of us knows the unwritten rule of our culture, that we are judged based on how we look, how we act, what we say, what we drive, what we wear...
This re-programming is always running in the background of our lives, quietly taking us farther and farther from our true identity in God: loved, redeemed, adopted.