Yesterday our “Chapter-a-day” reading was from Luke 12. The title of the first section in my Bible was “A Warning Against Hypocrisy.” Did you gasp when you read it? Verse three says, “Whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be shouted from the house-tops for all to hear!” Yikes! That is as bad as that little white lie thing of having someone tell a caller you’re not home when you’re standing right there. Bottom line is this: Jesus expects something different from us once we profess him as our Lord and Savior. It is not to be business as usual. We are not to be like everyone else…we are not to talk like them…we are not to think like them…we are not to act like them. We are now a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17) and the new creation is very different from the old! So here goes…this is not a guilt trip, but a reality check…how’s that new creation thing working out for you? Are you, as Wesley put it, “going on to perfection?” Please note that I didn’t ask you how easy was it…Jesus never said it would be easy, instead he said following him would be like taking up a cross (Luke 9:23). But are you making progress? That seems to be all he asks of us, that we make progress. God never expected us to become instantly perfect…but he does want us to become more like Jesus…each and every day.
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