Hi, all! Just a thought.

If you had never in your life heard of or seen a giraffe, and you were called upon to try and describe one, what possibly could you say?

Same situation, but a moose. Would you describe a cow? After all, the name “moose” includes the word “moo.” 

I’d love to hear someone describe a hippopotamus if they had never heard of that animal.  

But what about the simple grasshopper, like the one you see here? “Grasshopper” says it all. It hops in the grass. Listen to how simple that name and its description are.

If someone who had never seen, met, or even heard of you were to give a brief description of you based on what little they saw today, what would they call you? One name that comes to mind might be pew-sitter. But what if they really knew you? They might add the words worshiper, pray-er, singer, and praiser to your description.

A tight-rope walker’s name tells you all there is to know about that person, just like the word grasshopper tells you about that little creature. We creatures, or as God calls us, “My people, who are called by My name,” are given the name “Christian.” This name says that we are Christ-like. We aren’t Christ. We aren’t perfect. We don’t know all. We cannot be all to everyone. BUT, we are like the One Who can — and is.

I found it interesting that this little grasshopper seemed to be studying its shadow cast on the hood of the car. Either it thought it was having a one-on-one meeting with another of its own kind, or it was as if it was looking into a mirror, similar to the way we study ourselves in the mirror. We see but a reflection of who we really are.

The world should look at us and see a reflection of who we claim to be. We are known by our name. If only others knew that, then we would witness for the Lord more than we realize. But wait, maybe the world already knows you are a Christian. If you were the only Christian they ever saw, would they want to know more about Christ?

It’s a simple name — Christian. Wear it with honor this week. The grasshopper was given no option to be a grasshopper or to be called one. We have a choice. Are you known as a Christian?

(P.S. Regardless of when you read this, I’m writing it at the beginning of Thanksgiving week, and from one little grasshopper to another, I want you to know how thankful I am for each and every one of you.)

Just a thought. ’Til later.

Brad Campbell can be reached at mastah.pastah@yahoo.com.