I am really upset right now. Upset and disappointed. Disappointed in woman-kind (yeah I know, it’s not a word, but I am upset so deal). Why am I so angry. I will show you.

This picture was post on the Stockton Police Department’s FB page recently:  . The man in the picture was a arrested for possession of illegal weapons. The police seized two rifles, a handgun, and a shot gun (fairly certain he isn’t going duck hunting). After posting the picture to the police department’s FB page it has received 15,000 likes and 3,700 comments. Now I am not a prophet or anything, but it doesn’t take a genius to conclude that the guns were going to be used in a “not good way”. You would think the 3,700 comments would be from people thanking the department for stopping a crime before it happened. Or maybe even people showing their gratitude that tonight they can breathe a little easier because these criminals were arrested. But sadly that is not what the comments are about. No, the comments are all about how good looking the criminal is! Yup, not lying I can hardly believe it myself. Women were posting things like, “I’d like to be in the same cell as him” and “It is a crime to be hot?” I almost cried after reading the article. I am baffled that we have fallen so far as to not see the crime, because we are blinded by good looks! I was about to go off on my soap box and rant when God reminded me that I do that (no, not this particular thing). I, too am sometimes blinded to the bad in a situation because I am so enthralled by the way it catches my attention. Here is some truth: Sin does not ever come to us in an ugly way, if it did we would not be so easily entangled. No sin tempts us, it shows all the aspects of it that we like, while subtly hiding the things we don’t. By the time we realize what is happening we are too wrapped in its clutches to escape. Beware friends don’t look at the “pretty” look at the “character” that’s where you’ll find the truth.

“But the LORD said to Samuel, ‘Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart'” (1 Samuel 16:7).

So what’s the plan? Look at what God looks at.