"Fake People"!!! There is such a cry out against people being fake in our society today. No one wants to be around people who smile in your face and talk behind your back. Everyone desires to have people in their lives who wants the best for them and will be there to encourage them. Fake people are always the ones that cause drama. Yet, let us look at this from a different perspective. How many people are real with themselves. The reason why we have so many fake people is because no one wants to look in a "real mirror". "For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise", (2 Corinthians 10:12). We are still conforming ourselves to the world when we are looking at each other and comparing ourselves to one another, we are all broken sinners. "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will", (Romans 12:2).
When we look at ourselves we make changes to ourselves based on what we see in others. Mankind is a broken mirror due to sin, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God", (Romans 3:23). Yet there has only been one mirror that has never been broken. All Christians are to look into that mirror to see their reflection. This mirror reflects the brokenness of our sinful hearts and it declares the areas in which we need to die on the cross daily. This mirror is Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, the only human to walk the face of this earth and yet did not commit a sin. Jesus is the measuring stick that we are to compare ourselves to. "For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters", (Romans 8:29). The reason why there are so many "fake people", is because no one wants to see the reality of who they really are. If they do look in the mirror of Jesus Christ, they soon turn away from the mirror forgetting what they see. In other words, people would rather deal in their brokenness rather than deal with the fire that purifies the flesh that conforms us into the likeness of our Savior Jesus Christ. So because I don't want to deal with my issues, it's okay for you not to deal with yours. I will love you as I am called to do and accept your ways which are not pleasing to God, because I know my ways are not pleasing to God. "As long as when I compare myself to you, I look good, then we are okay". The reason the Pharisee and Sadducee's wanted Jesus dead was because He exposed them to the darkness of their broken and wicked hearts. We cannot accept less than what Jesus Christ died for, that man would be conformed into His likeness and His image to shed light onto this dark world so that some may come to the saving grace of God the Father!!! While none of us will never be perfect until we die in this life and receive our new bodies in eternity, settling for looking into broken mirrors will keep the church filled with "fake people"!!! Today, let us make sure the mirror we are looking into is the one illustrated in the scriptures of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!!! Be Encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of keeping it real on purpose!!!!!
James 1
Listening and Doing
19 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. 21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.
26 Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. 27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
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