Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon. I remember watching a commercial back in the

1990s. It was put out by the Canon Camera Company and they'd launch this big

advertising campaign and their star that kind of the

celebrity they had on it was the tennis legend Andre Agassi and the slogan

that they were using for this big ad campaign was image image is everything.

And that phrase captured the feeling of that time,

but maybe it captured the feeling of all times, right?

Because I think people have always been,

and probably always will be,

consumed with their image. Today we have more and more

opportunities to work on our image, more and more tools at our disposal to help us

present the kind of image that we want to put forward. We live in what you

might call a self-editing world in which we can control what people know about us and therefore

what they think about us. My wife is a big country music fan and Brad

Paisley who's one of the country music stars had a song with a line in it

I'm so much cooler online. And isn't it true that online we edit our

image like think of dating apps or are really any place that we can present

ourselves we come across better online than we do in person. Or another way that people kind of self-ed it is in their

resume, let's say somebody went to a college and flunked out and then went to a different college and graduated.

Well that college they flunked out of that's probably never going to show up on their

resume. And of course we know that there are people who have been found cheating on the resume, like coaches or political

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