Wearing Mask

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Me:  I just love being outside Prodigal!

 

Prodigal:  Me too, why don’t you tell me about something you read today.  You always seem to find something in a book you are reading.

 

Me:  Well this morning, I was reading from You Can Change by Tim Chester and I will share from that.

 

I want to change:  I want people to be impressed by me.  We may want to fit in or win approval.  We certainly don’t want people finding out what we’re like inside.  We wear a mask to hide our real selves.  Wearing the mask can be a great strain; it’s like acting a role all the time.  But we dare not let people see us as we really are.

One of the problems with trying to prove ourselves to other people is that they set the standard.  Their standards may be ungodly, but we adopt their behavior to fit in.  Or their standards may be godly, but we’re living in obedience to people rather than in obedience to God.  Often what happens is that we settle for living like other people even when that falls short of living like Jesus.  Or we measure ourselves against other people and decide we’re more righteous.  We may point finger at others’ faults so we can feel better about ourselves.

Instead we should be comparing ourselves to Jesus, finding we fall a long way short of God’s standards and discovering that we desperately need a Savior.

 

God has blessed me with discernment.  One definition of discernment is “perception in the absence of judgment with a view to obtaining spiritual direction and understanding.”

I see who you are with no mask and I am not judging.  I see the good that God sees!

 

Psalm 1:6

for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish

 

Jennifer Van Allen

 

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

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