God's Salon

Patience is a virtue. When headed to the beauty salon, all ladies need to remember that! Going to the beauty salon can literally consume you entire day. But we do it because we expect to leave better than we went in! Recently, as I sat at the salon I thought about how long it takes and how much people go through to look their best.  If people spent as much time working on their inner beauty as they do their outer beauty I wonder how much more peaceful the world might be. I also thought about how we all need to take a trip to “God’s salon.”
 At a hair salon you go in expecting to wait, and you do so generally speaking, without complaint. Then why is it so difficult for us to wait on God? We sit at the salon with high hopes that the beautician will transform our dull look into something to rave about. Can’t we expect the same from God when it comes to our souls?

We don’t mind getting water splashed on us while at the bowl getting our hair washed; we understand this to be part of the process. But can we understand that at times in order to receive blessings part of the process is to go through trials so that God can see if we are worthy of those blessings?

Not one woman I know has an issue with sitting under a dryer that is frying her scalp and burning her ears to a crisp. But ask her to go through a hot trial and you may see a totally different person. You may find someone who is frustrated, filled with doubts or someone who becomes so inpatient they get “out from under the dryer” and leave God’s salon, just when He is about to turn them into someone astonishing.

I have seen a sign in many salons that says “I’m a cosmetologist, not a magician,” yet I know many women who have more faith in their beautician than they do in God. Oh, and let me throw in that fact that we never have a problem paying that beautician, yet some feel it is asking too much when a special offering is raised in the church much less when the subject of paying tithes is brought up. 

So the next time you make an appointment to get “your do, done.” remember God’s salon, is always open, He’s never late, and you will definitely leave better than you came.

Think about it.