Believe it or not there are people in this world who have a clean image. Politicians, bankers and those on K-street should politely excuse themselves. What should a clean image go for these days? Can you buy a clean image? Should a clean image be traded like a rare baseball card, or sold to the highest bidder? What’s that old saying—you can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people, all the time. Let’s be perfectly clear: you can fool people, but not God!
The Bible says volumes about some people in just a few choice words. Abraham was called God’s friend. Enoch walked with God. David was a man after God’s own heart. Moses saw the glory of the Lord. Elizabeth and her husband Zechariah were both upright in the sight of the Lord. These special people led exceptional lives and it is recorded for the ages. More important, God acknowledged their contribution to humanity. Prime examples of how the rest of humanity should conduct themselves, they lived lives that pleased their creator. That is no small feat!
One man rises to the top like cream is mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. Promised he would see the Messiah before he died, he waited patiently. Not knowing what to expect exactly, one day the Messiah was presented to him as a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes. Is a clean image that important? “Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout.” Luke 2:25
"The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? But I, the LORD, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.
Jeremiah 17:8-9
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