hypocrisy (and me)

Jesus knew hypocrisy when he saw it.

My scripture schedule started with Mark 11. We are winding towards the cross as on the calendar we move towards Easter. We are in Mark 12 now.

Mark 12:35 says Jesus taught this here as he taught this in the temple. I am struck by the fact that he repeated these teachings many times. Here he speaks of David called the Son of God "lord". He asks why a king would call his son lord. The implication is this son must be very special.

Then here he says beware of the scribes who love to be given respect. They are hypocrites. When it judgment they judge unfairly against those who are powerless to do anything about it, like widows.

They are hypocrites. A hypocrite is one a who shows pretense in front of others. In the person doing it it leads to self deception and this is the most difficult barrier for God to dissolve. So true. That is why God hates it so much. He wants to reach us for the better.

At Life Group I blew up as I left, leaving it unresolved. It was cowardly as my DW so aptly said. I heard about it from DW all the way home and to a lessor extent for the rest of the night.

From what she said it seems I am self deceived. But I don't think so. So am I still self deceived? My wife is likely right. But I just don't see it. That is truly sad and truly scary.

Is that from being a hypocrite? So that I start to believe my own pretensions?

I've got a day of reckoning come, I guess. In a way I hope so. People will have to love me enough, or love God enough to go through it. Maybe they won't. But anyway it has to wait.