How honest are you within the Christian religion? Sincerity is the byproduct of Jesus’ command, “Be Excellent, due to this fact, as your heavenly Father is ideal. (Matthew 5:48),” This life precept, when appropriately understood, causes Christians to be extra like Jesus and retains them targeted on God’s excellent imaginative and prescient of Love. In different phrases, it develops the Jesus trait of sincerity the place the Christian Character Counts:
The tragedy with Christianity at the moment is identical as in Jesus’s day; hypocrisy and duplicity present dishonesty within the religion. The foundation drawback is that the believer’s coronary heart is invalid towards the LORD. They’re extra actors and pretenders than honest within the Delight of the LORD rooted in His Love. Many don’t put a lot effort into establishing life’s ideas, establishing boundaries in life, and deliberately reaching God’s potential. They mirror the enemy’s character rather than being an expression of the Picture of God. It’s unhappy as a result of it turns folks away from the Lord and causes divisions in relationships and life.
There are a lot of signs of lack of sincerity within the religion that promotes hypocrisy and duplicity. For instance, Christians say they’ve an identification and perspective towards Christ however don’t perceive the “Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-11).” One other signal is saying one factor in entrance of somebody after which gossiping or slandering them behind their again. Can we are saying “two-faced” or duplicitous dwelling? What about judging others or refusing to like somebody as a result of they don’t conform to your preferences, beliefs, or pondering? I might go on, however most perceive what being a hypocrite or deceitful means. The query is, are you one?
The prescription of hypocrisy and duplicity is to generate sincerity via Jesus’ command, “Be Excellent.” Be excellent or mature in God the Father’s Love and fact, the place sincerity is your actuality in phrase and deed. Sincerity is letting God shine via your blemishes reasonably than making an attempt to cowl them up. In different phrases, as John Maxwell shares, ”Our stroll talks and our speak talks, however our stroll talks louder than our speak talks.” Sincerity is the place our beliefs, character, and actions work properly collectively for a greater non-public and public life. So sincerity begs the query, are you sincerely dwelling a very good and exemplary life persistently and always within the LORD?
The Apostle Paul shares these phrases about sincerity: I due to this fact, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to stroll in a fashion worthy of the calling to which you have got been referred to as – Ephesians 4:1 (ESV). All of us have been referred to as to be real within the religion on the in and out.
As we speak, cease being a hypocrite and stop your duplicity; dispute your insincerity within the religion, and resolve to use the imaginative and prescient of God. Achieve this to know the place you’re at in your imperfection to develop and turn into extra like Jesus day by day, the place you might be targeted and decided to be an expression of God’s Picture, an ideal picture the place Christian Character Counts within the sincerity of Christ and life.
With Love and sincereness,
Drake Hunter is the Senior Pastor at Elevating Life Church in Fort Morgan and the writer of “Splendidly Bizarre Dwelling.”
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