WHEN
WE FAKE IT

Topics: Authenticity; Confession; Honesty; Hypocrisy; Sin; Truth; Worship

References: Psalm 51:1–12; Luke 18:9–14; James 5:16; 1 John 5:5–10

Research psychologists have found there are at least three situations when we are not ourselves.

     1.     The average person puts on airs when visiting the lobby of a fancy hotel.

     2.     The average person stifles emotion to bamboozle the salesman when entering the new-car showroom.

     3.     The average person in church tries to fake out the Almighty about being good all week.

—Dr. Perry Buffington, “Playing Charades,” Universal Press Syndicate (September 26, 1999)