Things are not always what they appear to be

I just watched one of my all time favorite childhood movies the other day.  Yes that is right, the movie Labyrinth.  This movie really has it all.  It stars David Bowie, which in itself should make any movie no matter the plot line a blockbuster.  It has puppets a plenty, and not this any old puppets, but Jim Henson puppets which really are the best.  All the elements for a great movie are there, a modern mixed family with a semi-wicked step mother and the new baby.  It is not only a great movie it is the modern fairy tale.  

That for example this little guy in the picture.  It might have been one of the smallest parts in the movie, yet it is a part that sticks with you.  It is almost enough to make you start greeting people with 'allo.  

So why is this brought to my mind?  Well I was looking at some people's pictures of the book of the face and saw one of my "friends" picture of a brick wall.  As soon as I saw that wall I started to have a movie flashback.  It happened so fast I didn't know what was happening.  I was transported back to the scene in the movie Labyrinth where the girl just begins her journey.  He is running down an seemly endless path and happens to stop and lend against the wall... a brick wall.  A small voice pipes up 'allo.  She responds "Did you say hello?" and of course little worm man replies, "No, I said 'allo, but close enough."   He then precedes to give her a bit of wisdom, that in the labyrinth things are not always what they appear to be.  It is at this point that she realizes that there are ways that she hadn't been seeing.  

The worm's advice to the girl was true for the labyrinth, but I also think that it is true for us and our world as well.  Things are not always what they appear to be.  We can look around and think that things are in way when in fact they are completely different.  It seems like almost everyone puts on masks, that the motives for certain things are different than how they are expressed.  

It is our job to try to see things for how they really are.  We need to shed light on the reality.  "But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible." Ephesians 5:13.  

What would this mean in your life?  How do we go about shedding light on the reality of what is around us?