Hypocrisy

One of Jesus’ most well-known stories tells the tale of a man who was attacked by robbers and left for dead on the side of a road. The surprising twist in the story is who comes to help him, and this raises important questions for us today about how we live our lives.

The writer Simone Weil defines humility as “attentive patience.” How do we become people who practice what we preach, so attuned to others’ needs that we discover lives of uncommon purpose?

Faith is found at an intersection where we learn to set aside our sometimes hypocritical performances of self and embrace our true selves—more broken than we like to admit but more loved than we could ever imagine.

Essential to spiritual growth is going out of our way to care for the practical needs people face. We can sacrificially enter in to other people’s suffering because Jesus did so for us at great cost.

The reward of hypocrisy is given by man but the reward of authenticity is given by God.