". . . why feignest thou thyself to be another?" 1 Kings 14:6
The wife of the wicked Jeroboam was practicing the art of camouflage. Her son was sick and she desired help from the aging prophet of the Lord, Ahijah. But she did not want the prophet to know who she was, for fear the prophet would rebuke her for their wickedness and disobedience. So she pretended to be someone else (1 Kings 14:6). She thought she could disguise herself and fool the blind prophet, but the Lord had warned the prophet of her coming, and before she could even practice her deception the prophet heard her footsteps and said, "Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another?" Her cleverness was discovered and her disguise had failed.
The sinner is like this woman. He too tries to camouflage himself and pretends to be something else than what he really is. Adam started the practice of camouflage when he tried to conceal his nakedness with aprons of fig leaves. Jacob practiced it when at the suggestion of his mother he impersonated his brother with the skins of goats on his hands and neck.
Abraham Lincoln is credited with the saying, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time." No one can deceive God any of the time! Camouflage is deception; it is hypocrisy.
A group of students in an eastern university sought to confuse their professor in biology. They took the body of a moth, put on the it the legs of a grasshopper, the wings of a dragon fly, and the head of a locust. They took it to the professor and asked him what kind of a bug it was, firmly convinced that he would be baffled. Without a moment's hesitation, however, he replied, "This is a humbug." Are you pretending to be something you are not? Your fig leaves will not do. Today, be genuine, be true, be "clothes with humility." Don't be a humbug!
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Very good 😊
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