I am a hypocrite.
Who I know I am, is not always who you think I am.
There is a gap.
A space between who you believe me to be…. and who I am.
Once a month I take twenty minutes out of my busy day to even out my chest and belly hairs with a fifty-dollar head trimmer. I like to call it “mowing the lawn”. I’m still pondering what to do with the brand new patch that’s beginning to grow on my back…
…Which leads me to a question that Ergun Caner (President of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary) challenged me to ask myself.
How free am I?
How free am I? Do I live in a suffocating cycle, trying time and time again to show you who you want to see? Do I live trapped, studying and praising, writers, speakers, Hollywood celebrities, and musicians so that you may think I’ve got it all together? Men who fashion entire empires but Heaven does not know their names!
It would only prove to you that I am a hypocrite if I said “no”.
so I say…
I have no clue what I’m doing. I don’t write well. I shave places on my body that normal people don’t have to worry about. I simply smile at people who, everyday, drive me to the point of insanity. I often enjoy cleaning wax out of my ear. Ferrets still perplex me. I would permanently remove my left eyebrow to be a wolf for a day. Musicals get me excited. And I find shopping somewhat enjoyable.
Writers inspire me, speakers motivate me, and musicians propel me, but the blood of Jesus defines me.
Celebrities just annoy me.
I was once lost, blind, and chained to my own sin.
But the love of God and the blood of His son, JESUS, set me free.
I am free to embrace my personality. (Psalm 139:14)
I am free to experience God’s best. (Jeremiah 29)
But how do I deal with my own Hypocrisy in all of this?
I must bridge the gap between who you think I am and who I know I am.
How do I do that?
Transparency.
This is awesome, it gives me so much to think about in a spiritual and earthly sense. Thank you