I’d hate having the last name Jones. McKibbon is bad enough. I get McGibbon, McRibbon, one time I even got MacIbone, Whatever. But imagine the last name Jones?

 

I’m sure many of you know people with that last name and I am sure that they are fine, upstanding people… but these are the people that we are apparently always trying to be like. “Gotta keep with the Jones’!” Who were these first Jones’ anyway and why were they so amazing?

 

Regardless, there is this pressure in our society to always be worried about how we are perceived and how we ‘look’ in other people’s eyes. Media convinces us that the car we already have, the house we already own, the clothes we already wear, and the job we currently go to everyday are inferior to what OTHER people have.

 

Sorry to tell you but this is nothing new. Paul told a church in Galatia “do your own work well and then you will have something to be proud of. But don’t compare yourself with others. (Galatians 6:4 CEV)” Be proud of who you are, and what God has already given you. I’m sure that if you WERE the Jones’, you’d probably wish you were the Smith’s, the Thompson’s, or the Johnson’s… no offence to any of these families either. I’m sure you’re nice people too.

 

At least that’s how I see it.

 

Craig