don't hide

1-3 He said to them, "Watch yourselves carefully so you don't get contaminated with Pharisee yeast, Pharisee phoniness. You can't keep your true self hidden forever; before long you'll be exposed. You can't hide behind a religious mask forever; sooner or later the mask will slip and your true face will be known. You can't whisper one thing in private and preach the opposite in public; the day's coming when those whispers will be repeated all over town.

Luke 12:1-3

don't be fake. don't preach love and not practice it behind closed doors. don't think that you'll get away with it. God sees everything and there will be a day when all that we've done will be revealed and put up for judgment. harsh but important! we can't trick ourselves into thinking that just because we do all these good things so that everyone can see, we can do whatever we want when no one else knows. God knows. don't hide. don't say things that you wouldn't say to the public. don't say things that you wouldn't say before God and all His angels. we may think, "this is impossible!" that means we can't say anything! that's not entirely true. if your heart wasn't in a dark place, you wouldn't have to say such things. once again, it begins in our hearts. we have to change our hearts. we have to have love in us. if we can't have that, of course we won't have good things coming out of our mouths! and we have to remember that we can't change our hearts by ourselves either. we need God's strength to do this. we've been holding onto bad thinking patterns, grudges, and distrust our whole lives. we've grown numb to when people are genuine. our hearts have grown calloused and hard. be true, through and through. no more whispering and gossip. everything will be in the light. live knowing that. know that God sees. but God also helps us to change! same thing as i've said in other blog posts, let's not be hypocrites. either out in the world or behind closed doors. let's live pure, full of light lives. that's what God wants.