Masquerade

Have y'all ever heard of a masquerade? According to Dictionary.com, a masquerade is a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes. It's a gathering of people disguising themselves. A gathering of people trying to be something they are not. Ever feel like the church today is just a big masquerade? Do you ever feel like the church is a bunch of people dressing up, putting on their masks, and being this "perfect Christian" on Sunday mornings? I sure do. Now, I myself fall captive to masquerades a lot so, this is directly aimed at myself as well.

This "perfect Christian" persona has become very evident to me recently. Everyone comes to church and enjoys the social aspect but, when it comes time to worship their God, we just go through the motions. It becomes almost painful for us to worship God because, well, we think socializing is more important. Does this make any sense at all? To us, i suppose it does. We think that nobody will see through our mask. We think we can get away with this crap that we try to pass off as being a "good Christian." Well guess what? Not only does God see through our masquerade, but other people do as well. The people that we, as Christians, need to be chasing after see right through our masks. What kind of image do you think that gives them? That Christians are a bunch of fakes? Guys, we have to give up the charade. Nobody believes us anymore. More importantly, God is calling us to be the light unto the world. He is calling us to stand out. To stand out and be TRUE with what we're living out. This masquerade we're living? Yeah, it's total crap. It's time to drop the mask. Don't just drop it off when you're with your Christian friends. They're probably just as guilty as you are. Drop the mask off and LEAVE it off. I don't know about you guys but, I'm not a huge fan of Halloween parties anyways.