I don’t like using the word “uniform” in this way, but consider it for a moment in a limited application of thought. When the UPS delivery guy drops off your latest Amazon package, he’s usually wearing his brown uniform. When you visit Chick-Fil-A for your Frosted Lemonade, the “It’s-my-pleasure” nice person handing your drink to you is usually wearing the red uniform shirt. Many uniforms are immediately recognizable—“Oh, that person works for _____.”
When someone looks at you today, will the One you work for be immediately recognizable? Paul made the same statement twice in 2 Corinthians 4:10-11, which means that it bears added attention. In his persecution, Paul was “always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus” and was “always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake.” But why? Underline “that”—“that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body” (see it in both verses 10 and 11).
When others look at you, do they see “the life of Jesus” manifested in your body? Does your “uniform” (i.e., wearing Christ, Gal. 2:20; 3:27) give it away?