Hypothetically...

...What if we were all floating brains?

Seriously. We live in a culture obsessed with looks. We find something to criticize about ourselves every day (at least I do). Admit it, you wake up in the morning and occasionally think, "If only my eyebrow arched about twenty degrees more"...or something like that.

What if we were all floating brains? (This is hypothetical, so don't go saying that brains can't communicate or eat.) If we only based our opinions off intellect, personality, and other purely brain-ish qualities, what would life be like?

I would like to think that we would all be much happier. Brains don't get fat (I hope). Brains don't worry about what they have to wear the next day. There might be no obsession with looks, no superiority complexes regarding who's taller, and about thirty minutes away from the mirror (and in bed!).

But if we still kept our humanity, which I'm sure we would, wouldn't there be new things to lose self-esteem about? It wouldn't be anything as foolish as "My right lobe is bigger than your right lobe!", I hope, but self-esteem would now be based on smarts rather than looks.

People sometimes say they wish they didn't have to deal with their appearance, and they would never feel bad. I would beg to differ. There is only one way we can ever feel totally secure in ourselves. We must find our identity in the God who created us. As long as we rely on Him and lose ourselves in His love, instead of what other people think, it won't matter whether we're giant brains or giant zucchini or just human. God created us in His image -- we should take care of our bodies, but we should remember that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. God gave us the ability to learn -- we should respect it and learn as much as we can, but realize that each person has different gifts.

Spend a little time with your Creator if you find yourself believing the lie that your identity is in what you look like or what you can or can't do. Your identity is in Him and Him alone.

And His right lobe is so much bigger than yours.