Dishonesty

WHY WE CARE HOW PEOPLE VIEW US

The real question is, why can't we bring ourselves to care about how God views us in the first place?

The answer is that we know people can be fooled, and God cannot.

We know God sees us as correctly as can be. We know that in His sight, we are but a mere speck in the universe, made of dust, and totally helpless without Him. We bear His image and likeness, and thus are meant to be witnesses to His endless ocean of greatness, nothing more.

Yet, we find that in the world, people don't see us like that. People seem to elevate us to a higher status than God does; we are bigger in the eyes of men than in the eyes of God. We feel more important in people's sight, even to the point where we think we're special enough to be irreplaceable in this world.

We don't want to be slaves and just do His bidding. We want to have a say. God does not give us that say, but people do. Therefore we find pleasing people so important, because it gives us that forbidden status we've always sinfully wanted.

Yet only God's view is reality. And when you try to cause someone to have a view of you that isn't God's, you're being downright dishonest. And you're being unreal.

What's worse is that serving God is no longer one's priority. Being a slave to Christ is no longer one's primary identity. The idolatry of seeking recognition and agreement from men cripples a Christian, and keeps him from sacrificing himself wholly to God. That's sad, because if we refuse to obey Him, we refuse to bear His glorious likeness, and what's left is distorted, sinful dust of the ground.

What's left is dust praising dust for being dust. It all fades into vanity and nothingness.