Jesus Would Buy Used from Amazon

I always heard the phrase growing up "You can't judge a book by its cover."  I think this is most certainly true.  Especially now in the age of the internet where Amazon and ebay are as frequently shopped as Walmart, I think people have come to understand that just because the cover is torn and the pages are slightly discolored, doesn't mean the story is any less valuable or entertaining.  So when it comes to books we all agree.  We get the picture.  

But...

As much as its good to know that a yellow paged book is just as good as a brand new copy, you and I both know that this is not what the proverb is talking about.  We're the books.  Our heart is the story and our outward appearance is the cover.  And even though people are buying from Amazon and ebay like mad, they're still judging their neighbors, colleagues and more by their covers and not by the story on the inside.  People are wrongly judged all the time for silly reasons: race, social class, dress, and all sorts of other ways people can think of to degrade others in order to uplift themselves.  

If you're a Christian and you do this let me tell you right now, that's not the way Jesus wants it.  Jesus was no respecter of persons and it showed in the way he lived.  He spoke freely with a Samaritan woman, a social and racial class taboo of his day (John 4:3-26).  He chose a wild man dressed in camel's hair, not a prim suited T.V. pastor, to prepare the Jews for his coming (Matthew 3:1-3).  He surrounded himself with the common people, with fisherman, tax-collectors, and the like, instead of hanging around the religious elite (Matthew 10:1-4).  Jesus was not one to judge based on appearances but rather on the heart.

1 Samuel 16:7 says, "But the LORD said to Samuel, 'Do not look on his appearance or on his height of his stature, because I have rejected him.  For the LORD sees not as man sees.  Man looks on the outward appearance.  But the LORD looks at the heart."