KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Reality
OUR SOCIETY IS addicted to "reality..."
I guess it started a good while back with crime shows like Cops and Real TV. Then, we made the switch to relationship shows like The Bachelor(ette). It seems that nothing is too sacred or outlandish for people to turn into a reality television show. There is even one now that consists of two families swapping mothers/wives for two weeks (if this isn't evidence that our nation's family values are out of whack, I don't know what is). The lure of these shows is the fascination we have with seeing "real" people in "real" situations...seeing who they REALLY are! Yeah right! With cameras in their face and the world watching, how real do you think these people are being? Reality or not, the key word is "show."
Do we ever put on a show for others? What is the truth about who you are? What if everyone you know was able to look in your mirror and see exactly what you see...who you really are? How would your friends react? Would your Christian friends be shocked at the person you are in secret? Would your non-Christian friends be shocked to find that you are a Christian at all?
THOUGHT: The REAL you peeks out when no one is looking (Mama always said). And the REAL you is determined by your actions...not by your intentions. Make your reality pleasing to God by obeying His will (Darrell Powell).
KneEmail: "But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does" (Jas. 1:22-25; cf. Matt. 6:16ff).