My kids have even watched me grab this mask and put it on…and they think it is hilarious. When I put on this “everything is fine” mask I may smile too much, laugh too hard, talk a little louder, act a little prouder …all in an effort to hide the imperfections that I am afraid you will see just beneath the surface. We scroll through these “masks” every day on our social media accounts…and we all are guilty of posting images that portray this “perfect life.” It is the positive, perfect, pleasant mask we put on to show the outside world that our lives, our families, our jobs, and our homes are beyond fine…they are great! Perfect, even. The first is the “EVERYTHING IS FINE” mask. Full disclosure, it has taken me a lot of prayer and soul searching to even get to this point of acceptance. I guess I first need to come clean about what masks I wear and why I wear them. So much easier to say and write about than to actually, physically, pry those different masks off my face, but I hope to make a start today. But in reality, I have been taking off and putting on masks my whole life.Īnd since AT THE CROSSROADS is all about connection and I believe authentic connection can only take place when people are real, genuine, and honest, I have been convicted lately about taking off these masks. We are terrified that if we show anyone who we really are, we will be ridiculed, rejected, ignored, misunderstood, or disliked. We not only hide from God, but from others…and even from ourselves. In effect, they tried to put on a mask so that God could not see them as they really were. Their eyes were opened and they knew that had broken fellowship with God because of their sin, so they hid. They hid because they were afraid and ashamed. Then the Lord God called to the man, ‘Where are you?’ He replied, ‘I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. So they hid from the Lord God among the trees. “When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking about in the garden. Welcome to #ThankfulThursday where we will be taking off the masks.ĭo you know that hiding was one of the very first things Adam and Eve did in the garden after they disobeyed God and ate the forbidden fruit? Here is the account from Genesis 3:8-10 (NLT)
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