You Become What You Behold

Hours in front of a Burger King fryer left a teenager smelling like an onion ring, an image for a spiritual principle: we become what we behold. In Romans 9:1-5, Paul grieves for the very people who sought his life, because years of beholding grace taught him he was chosen through no merit of his own. Hearers are invited to ask what they smell like, and to behold the Jesus who chose them at their worst.