God loves Truth. John 4:24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” He is looking for someone who is authentic and who will be real with Him. He can deal with your truth no matter how ugly it may seem, what He can’t do is help you to perpetuate your lies. Ask yourself - Are you true to who you really are? Do you even know who you really are? Are you honest to others and most important to yourself and God? What lies have you begun to believe as truth? Most important what is your measuring stick for truth? As disciples of Jesus there is much more of an emphasis on being authentic than others because of the truth of following Jesus. He was the role model of authenticity. His Kingdom message was about knowing who you really are and walking in the power, blessings and freedom of this truth. Yet even with all of His messages many members of the organized church today have become very similar to the Pharisees of Jesus’ day. In Matthew 15:7-9 Jesus criticized the Pharisees because of their hypocrisy. You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you: These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men A simple definition of hypocrisy is saying one thing and doing another. We have all been guilty of this. But our desire should be to have our inner heart match up with our outward actions. This is developed over time as we become true to ourselves and who God has called us to be. We need to always remember that God sees everything and is looking to see proven character and true heart motives in our lives. 1 Samuel 16:7 “for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” This is not false perfection, where you pretend that you are somebody you are not, but exactly the opposite. It is facing your mistakes and shortcomings and dealing with them in a Godly and biblical way. Each of us must learn to guard Gods values in our personal and public life We can not have two types of standards in our lives- one for personal and one for public, they must line up at all times to be truth in our lives. We must learn to live what we say and teach, to make it real. Who are you really when no one else is watching?
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:36:16 +0000
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