Reality Usually Sets Us Straight....

When I was a child we used to play all kinds of fun games. We would watch a movie then pretend we were one of the characters in it. Star Wars, numerous military movies, and of course all the movies with larger than life characters. I remember when we watched Rocky lll, we went to the sporting good store and purchased boxing gloves. My friend and I then proceeded to the “backyard boxing ring” and started to beat on each other. My brother then came out with his friend (3 years older than we were), who was much larger than both of us and asked if he could try on the gloves. He then asked if he could spar with my friend. One punch later my friend was a little woozy (punch drunk). I had a great imagination, and still do, but I’ve realized when you pretend for more than a few minutes, reality will usually set you straight. If it doesn’t, then you’ll begin to believe your own fantasy to be real and start reaping the consequences of your contrived Pseudo-reality. After awhile you will lose touch with truth and start to make up your own. Here in Luke chapter 20 we see the sadducees living out their false reality. Jesus confronts then with the truth, and they don’t receive it well. Pretending to be something you’re not or believing something to be true when it’s not, will only lead you down a path of destruction; especially if you promote your pseudo-reality to others as being the only way to live.

45 Then, with the crowds listening, He turned to His disciples and said, 46 “Beware of these teachers of religious law! For they like to parade around in flowing robes and love to receive respectful greetings as they walk in the marketplaces. And how they love the seats of honor in the synagogues and the head table at banquets.47 Yet they shamelessly cheat widows out of their property and then pretend to be pious by making long prayers in public. Because of this, they will be severely punished.” Luke 20:45-47