UFOs all around us

I was talking to my wife tonight and I made the comment that I often stand out among those that I"m going to school with. I've been working on getting my CDL Class A license the last two weeks and many of the students are hoping to soon be driving a big rig (semi-truck and trailer). I've got a job lined up with a Tampa food distributor so thankfully I'll be home every night! Unfortunately we live in a society that stereotypes everything and everyone. When I've told friends that I'm getting my license to drive semi's, some have found it amusing, saying that I don't look the trucker 'type'. I know most people's idea of a trucker is a large burly man, with lots of tattoos, and some teeth missing, but being in school, the majority of students don't look that way. I guess neither do I since I'm considered clean cut and of average height and build. Back in 1998 my company at that time sent me to Atlanta for some training. I was able to take my wife and we were in a section of town that was very affluent and wealthy, staying in a very nice hotel. During the day I was in training and had to wear a suit and tie, she got to relax and enjoy the benefits of a nice hotel. One night she met me in the lobby, dressed in jeans, and a cut off shirt. We got in the glass elevator with some wealthy ladies. What was amusing were the looks they kept giving my wife as she hung on my arm, her in her jeans and cut off shirt, me in my nice suit. At the time though she wasn't amused, because they thought she was a hooker! Isn't it amazing what people assume? It just goes to show that you can't always tell a book by its cover. And unfortunately we have a lot of that in the church and outside the church. People can't always tell what our beliefs are based solely on how we're dressed or our actions. Too many Christians are like UFOs, Unidentified Flying Objects! We should wear the badge of Christianity with honor, like many others before us have done. I'm determined that those I rub shoulders with on a consistent basis, will know what Christ means to me. And that my friends is the reality of it!