Crowning Glory

Posted on January 12, 2010 12:00 AM MST by Tiffany Kinerson

Today I got a new haircut for about $10. I also went to the store and got a bottle of color to cover up those scalawag grays that tend to wave like wiry flags in mutiny to my female bent toward beauty. Funny thing about today’s cheapskate answer to the salon: for less than twenty bucks, I covered up a couple hundred dollar mistake I made on my hair last fall.

Maybe mistake is too harsh of a word. The haircut was actually decent. Even the color was fine. It looked very natural. Exactly like my regular hair looked before I walked in the shop, as a matter of fact. But after over four hours of forced immobility and after a couple hundred dollars down the wash basin, isn’t the point of the whole process to emerge as a regular beauty queen on steroids?

I think so. But that wasn’t what happened at all. And in spite of the fact that I’d gone in the salon with every intention of a treat for myself “for once,” I emerged disappointed in the same old me who came out.

I’m so glad it’s different for followers of Christ.

II Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.” This means that at the moment in time in which I trusted God through Jesus with my life, the old, dingy, listless, misshapen me died. And what emerged was a bright, new, shiny, clean me.

The best part about it is I’m not talking about the external me that fades away or, like my hair, I will probably change a season from now. I’m talking about a change inside the eternal me. Once upon a time, the core of my being was empty, searching, dull. But now I am full, peaceful, radiant. He changed who I was. I am a new creature. Beauty representing His grace. God's crowning glory.

Which certainly beats the noggins off a little old haircut. But still, I must say I am happy with my new ’do. It’s a bobbed swing, about chin-length. And the color? L’Oreal’s Light Golden Brown. Let’s get a little girl talk going. What’s your hair do-ing at the moment? Any resolutions for that baby?

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