| Faking It |
| When I was a boy, I used to fake being sick so I wouldn’t have to go to school. In fact, I well remember the day when my mother was away, and my sister and I put hot water bottles on our foreheads and then told my father we thought we had a fever. We ended up fooling him, and, after the school bus had passed by, we suddenly felt so much better. We knew we couldn’t have duped our mother, but, because she was gone for the day, we got away with it that one time. |
| However, there is no use trying to fake it when it comes to being a true Christian. We might be able to fool our parents and peers, but we will never fool the One who “seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart” (1 Samuel 16:7). |
| Judas Iscariot was one who tried to fake it, and he did a very good job for some three years, even fooling the other eleven disciples. But the Lord knew his heart and, in the end, it all came to light. |
| If you are faking it, stop and consider such folly. Turn from faking it to true “repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ” (Acts 20:21). |
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