WHAT IS WITH THE PRETENCE? WHY DO WE GO ABOUT TRYING TO BE WHAT WE ARE NOT AND NEVER WILL BE? GOD HAS SPONSORED OUR LIFE, WITH THE DEATH OF HIS SON, SO LIVE THE LIFE GOD MEANT FOR YOU TO LIVE
It is time for us (yes me included) to stop the pretense. We get up Sunday morning, go to a physical building, called a church, sit on the pew (or chair) and engulf all that the pastor, preacher or whomever is saying. We jump and shout, wave our arms while exclaiming how good God is and send up a multitude of praises, Hallelujah, thank You Jesus. In other words, we put on a show for our fellow churchgoers, and then we go home. Once we are inside our homes or away from church, we check our “my-time-with-God box and then those that are not serious about serving YHWH, God, in the name of Jesus, immediately check out of the religious mode back into the worldly mode. Fall right back, without knowing who will catch them, into the old sinful ism. Some do not wait to get home and they do not check any box. They just go on with their life as if it belongs to them solely; nothing sinful is happening here. Yet, on the inside they are as if they are hollow; no real life. This is not good because God wants us to be, every day, actively productive in His service. ( Matthew 23:27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness).
It is good to make believe and pretend when you are young (it strengthen your minds mode of imagination) but when you are older in years and should be more mature, in wisdom, it is time to embrace the Truth and embrace its identity when it comes to you: to display entire case of your character (not being afraid) with His strength surrounding it. Because God knows whether we are lying or telling the truth about our walk with Him. Some are working (of the flesh) in vain; not doing the will of Yah’s. They may think so because it is all flowery, showy, and beautiful on the outside or to the public. It should be the same in our private lives as it is in the one, we have on display, for the public to see. Truly we are Gods creation so regardless of rather or not man approve of us does not matter, (it is when you stop performing for him that ruffle his feathers). But know this, that it is only God (the only One) who has a heaven or hell to put you in. Stop pretending in front of men for your soul’s sake! (Matthew 7:21-23 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity).
So, I share this information with everyone, it is high time we stop and think about the way we are living our lives, actions we take, words we speak, joy, or discourse we bring, when we are not in the physical building, when we are not being spoon fed the feel-good words from the message of Christ. Because people of the world’s way of life, for the most part, do not understand you nor do they care about you, and they can only see what is portrayed on the outside. They cannot see what is in your mind or heart. Maybe some are dealing with a hurt or pain which is hiding inside and the only way to ease it is to keep up the different layers of yourself by pretending to be an outstanding child of God, but God knows. And He only wants us to come correctly to Him; through His Son, our Saviour, Yashuah, Jesus, whose death need not be in vin if we but follow His lead. (Galatians 2:20 and 21 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain). (Psalm 139:1-3 139 O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. 2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought far off. 3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways).
We should make it a practice, when we are facing issues (with pastor, supervisor at work, spouse, children, friends, and especially enemies) which may cause us to commit sin through falsehoods, pretenses. This is true simply because we do not understand (know) what is expected of us and instead of gaining the knowledge through prayer, questioning, or observation we pretend to know and usually wind up messing the whole situation or whatever it is, up. Although you are not familiar with that particular something, situation, or circumstance you should have enough faith in God, through Jesus to admit it and then the courage to own the victory over it. The fact is, that we are not alone in any situation, circumstance, trial, trouble, or tribulation we find ourselves going through. And before anything come our way, we should prepare our path with Yashuah’s answers by accepting the task to ask ourselves the question, “What would Jesus do?” This question applies to every area of our life, the good, bad, and the ugly. Because most of the time the pretense has no boundaries; the trickle-down effect, that should go from religion to righteousness, gets lost in the process of the pretense. And since, over the years, it has been the focus, as a major part of your character, it has developed into a strong by-line; it has become so natural that you do not recognize it as being pretentious. But God sees us all, from the inside out; He knows our hearts, body, souls, and minds. Therefore, no matter how we try and hide, disguise, or alter our deceit, behind a phony laughter, a crooked smile, fast talk, etc., we cannot pull the wool over His eyes; we must come correct and be legitimately clean with Him. And all the pretending in the world will not last long enough to make your life what YHWH, God, through Yashuah, Jesus, would have it to be. And if it is not as God wants it, it is lived in the shadow of what it could have been; a rich and abundant life (spiritual and natural) where, even when the battle rages all around, you will have peace in the middle of it, safe in the LORD’s arms. (1 Samuel 16:7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” Proverbs 16:28 A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends. 1 Timothy 5:8 But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. Romans 12:9 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Proverbs 12:9 Better to be lowly and have a servant than to play the great man and lack bread. 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; … 2 Timothy 3:13 while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived).
It is very wise of you to stop pretending and be who God created you to be so that the blessings He has for you will be given. To exit a life of pretense and enter the life of Truth won’t make the hurt and horrific happenings go away nor our fellow man to love or even like us. That’s okay. But when we finally realize that we are in such state (staying in the Word, Will, and Way of YAH helps to prevent this from happening), going to Yah, in Jesus’ name, is the first thing to do. He will take us to a place of revelations, buried within ourselves, which will help to rid ourselves of the root of bitterness and ignorance, and prevent it from spreading to others. Therefore, we must go to the mirror of God’s love (I constantly visit it) and see what area we need to consider, then consider bringing it to the LIGHT and letting it go. Don’t fool yourself into thinking that your pretense is not doing you or those around you any harm. It is, just look in the mirror of God’s love! When you have conformed to this world so for so long, coming from among it will not be an easy task; you will be slipping and sliding all over the place, but God in His all-encompassing grace and mercy will keep you from falling and when you fall, He will pick you up. We do not hear what His word say do, in the first place because we don’t listen, and then in hast, we walk by the mirror of God’s love so that we will not see the truth and be convicted. YHWH, God wants us to know that whoever get the tiniest glimpse of His uncovered advice, opinion, and instruction will be se free. Free from a life of trying to keep up with a self-made life, authored by you and the world around you. STOP PRETENDING! Become a true man or woman, with action in the service of God.
like No more pretending, you either are or you are not a true child of the Most High God. And although you slip and fall, get up with the knowledge that we all are human and we, (at sometimes in our walk, on this journey with the Lord), will fall. The problem is not the fall or even the getting up but the way we get up. Did you keep your eyes on the LORD? Or are we getting up from our fall, still pretending the same old way. Or did we not get distracted, while down in the valley, but found affirmation in God’s Word Jesus (Who is Love) as we, looked in God’s mirror of Love. There we are not deceived, nor can we deceive ourselves, but have found a new release and know what real service to God, self, and others is and how we are to go about it. Not in a self-servant way but get up with a clarity of Whose, and who we are; we do not need to pretend; we’ve got our King Jesus, Who is genuine love: He is genuine in all He does. In Jesus’ name. (Romans 12:1-2 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Hebrews 12:14-15 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;)
(James 1:23-27 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world).
I’ll tell you a secret. Whether we know it or not, simply because the world and everything in it, is in such a pretense mode, (constantly fighting against our Father; a fight it will never win), God had, has, and will have it all wrapped up in His neat bundle, of His profound LOVE! SO WE MUST STOP PRETENDING TO BE SOMEONE OR SOMETHING WE ARE NOT AND START LIVING THE LIFE GOD HAS GIVING US TO LIVE.
GODS GOT IT NO WORRY NO FEAR.
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