Trying To Be Real

Very essence of being a hypocrite is pretending to be something you are not. There is not anyone who has not walked into those shoes.  No other time is this apparent then on a Sunday morning at your local Church. We do not want to show our weakness so when someone ask how are you doing or how have you been? We smile and with a lying tongue and a hypocrites smile we answer fine. 

This is playing the hypocrite . Putting on a mask to play the role of a happy ,successful ,victorious Christian. In truth many Churches actually do not want this type of honesty or real soul baring. Why? Lets face the hard truth , we do not want to be bothered with others problems .Out own lives are tough enough,Right? We need to be real , to be honest that sometimes the week has been hard , full of doubt , temptation,struggles with inward sin, anxieties,fear, disappointments ,broken relationships,fractured loves and on the list could go . Life is messy and as Christians we are called to to share each others burdens and encourage one another in the Lord. 

Until we enter into our rest , this life is a battlefield. Jesus never promised a life of ease and a vacation in the Hampton's . He has called us into his sufferings. The call to die to self and pick up the cross daily and follow Him.

To be honest and real is to confess our struggles , our doubts ,our sins and in that brokenness and weakness, look to Jesus and trust in God's promises of joy,peace and contentment's even amid the strife and toil we sometimes encounter this side of heaven. 

So lets not play the hypocrite anymore and be real . Why should we anyway , no one knows us better than our Lord .