At some point the Prodigal began faking it....
No doubt early on his new life and choices were fun....
But at some point...
The fun began to wain and the smiles had to be forced....
The first night the debit card dinged as he picked up the tab for his not so great buddies reality began to sink in....
Soon homeless and desperate he looked at the hog slop and was tempted to share dinner....
My point is....
At some point we begin faking it....
Sunday morning @CUPC we discussed this and it appears that the attempts to maintain pretense is the earliest stages of a sad demise....
There are Pretenders in every church....
On every job....
In every family.....
And maybe even inside of you!
In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth. 2 Tim 2:25
Pretenders "oppose themselves"
There are their own enemy!
But God "gives them repentence" when they acknowledge "the truth"....
Not doctrinal truth....
Not salvific truth....
But "the truth" about themselves...
For when one acknowldges "the truth" about himself he is no longer a Pretender.....
And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. 2 Tim 2:26
The Pretender is taken captive by the enemy at the enemy's choice time....
Pretenders are not their own master, rather they willingly walk into the enemy's trap....
Oh but if......
If the Pretender will drop the pretence and acknowledge truth about himself....
He can "recover himself" out of the snare of pretentious pretending...
The Prodigal compared dinner with a pig to dinner at Dad's place....
And set all pretence aside...
Got himself out of the "snare of the devil"....
And ate a fat baby cow for supper....
The Prodigal Pretender would have had to share a pork chop with a pig....
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