The Unworthy Saint

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

Hypocrrisy is not telling your child to make his bed when yours is unmade.  Hypocrisy is telling your child all the beds in the house should be made, so he should go make his, when yours is not made.

Christians are pegged as hypocrites quite a bit – but orthodox christianity, thus orthodox christians, are not.  We do not claim to be perfect.  Quite the opposite, we claim to be flawed – so much so that we are unable to do any good apart from Christ.  Call us crazy for believing what we believe, but don’t call us hypocritical – we make no claims to be better than anyone, no – the playing field is level on this side of Heaven… we are all sinners deserving of Hell.  But by the grace of God, some of us are being and will be saved from that Hell.

Like I said before, I feel very frail – especially today.  God has been especially gracious to me though – He’s lifting me out of the pit, out of the mire and clay.  Now, will I sing?