{"id":4283,"date":"2015-05-31T14:01:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T19:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heartofgraceministries.com\/blog\/?p=4283"},"modified":"2015-05-31T14:01:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T19:01:34","slug":"time-stop-pretending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heartofgraceministries.com\/blog\/after-the-fact\/time-stop-pretending\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Time To Stop Pretending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>John 5:36-40<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><sup><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>36\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-26248\"><\/a> <strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><sup><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>37\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-26249\"><\/a> <strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><sup><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>38\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-26250\"><\/a> <strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><sup><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>39\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-26251\"><\/a> <strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><sup><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>40\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Most of us instinctively draw back from dealing with this stubborn commitment to independence from the world, pretending we are all right as we are. It is much easier to pretend we are thirsting after God than it is to face the challenge of giving up our commitment to independence from sin.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Psalm 42:1<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">What is the answer? We must ask God to search our hearts, expose our self-centered motivations, and help us to see just where it is that we stop short of panting after Him.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">You see, the more deeply we sense our thirst, the more passionately we will pursue water. But we will never sense that thirst until we are willing to face the fact that we may be drinking more from our own self-constructed wells than from the wells of God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We cannot continue this way. The days of pretending are over.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Proverbs 14:12<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-16785\"><\/a> <strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><sup><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>12\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Our own reasoning will lead us to destruction. Without God\u2019s counsel we will perish.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>1 Corinthians 10:20-21<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-28588\"><\/a> <strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><sup><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>20\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-28589\"><\/a> <strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><sup><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>21\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord&#8217;s table, and of the table of devils.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We cannot pretend to be one way and be another. 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It is better to face and fight our demons than it is to try and hide them from the view of others.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Philippians 3:12-14<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-29434\"><\/a> <strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><sup><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>12\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-29435\"><\/a> <strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><sup><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>13\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"en-KJV-29436\"><\/a> <strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><sup><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>14\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Notes', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">If we forget about something then it is dead to us. 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