Never Judge a Book By Its Cover...
Why this advice ever existed in the first place? why do we need this advice? "Never judge a book by its cover" has been in this world before 20th century. You can find the link here for your reference ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_judge_a_book_by_its_cover )
All that is gold does not glitter; all that is long does not last; All that is old does not wither; not all that is over is past
This proved to me that human nature never changed much except our lifestyle and environment. I wanted to touch this subject because this one has been on my mind for so long that i wanted to pour it all out in here. The difference is that todays deception is much more advance than 20 or 50 years ago that we are told to have this need to do more inspections, prayers and patience and not forgetting all the advice we can get. Im not saying we should neglect our hygiene; we need to appear clean and approachable so that we can gain trust from strangers. I suggest that what we should do is to be more balanced.
This idiom practically applied to all aspects of our life and to all walks of life even to the point of relationships between man and woman. A healthy relationships is vital to our life as it will enrich our wisdoms, experience and the way we approach life. For a christian, asking for Gods wisdom for discernment is equally important for life changing decisions such as marriage, divorce and career. Nobody said that it will be easy to have this discernment but we learn while we grow right? :)