How is your Christian walk today? Are you close with the Lord or are you far away? Is your heart toward him and your worship of him true, or are you just going through the motions? If you find that you are faking your faith by saying and doing the right things, but your heart is far from God, I’d like to admonish you with these words from the Lord in Isaiah, chapter 29, verse 13 which says:
“The Lord says: ‘These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men.”
If your Christian walk is only for show; if you come near to God with your mouth and honor him with your lips, but your heart is far from him, I want to encourage you to stop pretending. God knows your heart. He knows your spiritual state. You are not fooling him, and fooling others is ultimately fruitless. That is why the Bible explains that God likes a broken and contrite heart, one that is real before him. When we come to him and confess our sins, it is never a fun thing. But if we do it with a repentant heart, we are real before him. Only then can we be made clean. It is when we stop faking it, when we stop going through the motions, and we stop pretending to be in right relationship with God that he can truly restore us. If you are putting on a false front before God, it is time to be real with him. Because being honest before God is the only way we can truly be honest with ourselves.
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If you are pretending to be in right relationship with God before men, it is of no benefit to you. In fact, being fake before God will only hurt because God is interested in the true state of your heart. In Isaiah, God said that the Israelite people come near to him with their mouth and honor him with their lips, but their hearts are far from him. Is your heart far from him? If you find that you are going through the motions in an effort to seem righteous in front of your believing family and friends, I would encourage you to be honest before Him. God knows the truth anyway, and to him faking it is just as bad as lying.
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