”...in hypocrisy of liars, their own conscience having been branded...”
-Hypocrisy. Hypocrisy. Duplicity. Affectation. Pretense. These are the pretenders, the actors. These perhaps do not appear to be directly opposing the Truth, in fact they are pretending to believe the Truth, playing a part in a play, one written by the devil in hisself. You say one thing, but that is not really who you are, what you believe. You’re just acting - which in matters of truth makes you a liar, just like that one who was a liar from the beginning (John 8.44). The father of lies. Begetting lies is what he does - and what you are doing. You don’t really believe that. Your lifestyle doesn’t match your words. Living a lie. You hypocrite. I know, right? That’s a heinous indictment, isn’t it? Cuz nobody likes a hypocrite, least of all, Jesus (Matthew 15.7-8, 24.48-51, and the entirety of 23.13-30).
-These pretenders, these deluded deceivers, their conscience is branded. A brand is the result of a searing red-hot iron being applied to the skin such that it leaves a massive scar, skin covered over by thick tissue which basically has no feeling to it. The nerves have been destroyed. Desensitized. This is akin to what happens to our conscience, that part of our soul which is supposed to have moral sensitivity, designed to tell us what is right and what is wrong. And failure to heed - repeatedly ignoring my conscience in favor of a lie - gradually desensitizes it. Eventually I can get to the place where the lie no longer bothers me. It’s okay to live a lie. I can lie to your face and not feel even the slightest twinge of remorse. I may even lose all awareness of the truth, unaware that what I am saying and how I am living is straight-up hypocrisy. But wait, there’s more...
No comments:
Post a Comment