You've Been Hiding So Take Off The Mask

We live in a culture, a society and a time when people are impress with how each other look or what we know. We have gotten so far into this fad that we are afraid to allow people see who we are and what we really look like.

And that’s why many men are afraid to allow people to see them cry; now I didn’t say that men can’t cry or they don’t cry, but I said that they are afraid to allow others to see them cry, reason being is that, we believe that others may look at it as a sign of weakness. That’s why when we do cry, we try to be along so that no one can see us, because we don’t want people to see the softer side of us.

Society has dictated to us so much how we ought to be, so much so that our lady will go the beauty shop and spend almost every dime that they make to try to enhance the beauty that they already have, they dye their hair, curl they’re hair, they press their hair, straighten their hair, they go there to get their eyebrows arch, there legs waxed, and there nails manicured because as a society we are bothered by how people perceive us. And that’s why we will spend thousands of dollars nipping, tucking stuffing, clipping, and reducing stuff because we are trying to hide all of the blemishes that we have. We are afraid to allow anybody to see the flaws, errors, mistakes, faults, defects and imperfections, we are afraid to let anybody see the impurity so we camouflage, hide, conceal, disguise and obscure ourselves with masks.

We are afraid to let people know that we have some flaws on our body, we are afraid to let them know that our ears are not lining up with each other, we are afraid to let them see that our face is not really straight or that our nose are crooked. Or that we have some scars that cannot be hidden. We are afraid that people will know that our hair really looks like, we really don’t want people to know who we are.

EVEN IN FASHION

We try to look successful by wearing all of the latest fashion cloths, driving fancy cars by trying to keep up with Jones, and the Smith or just your next door neighbor. We run around with three phones and two of them are off.

Yes you might be driving around in a nice car, and you might have your two or three phone, but what good are they if your gas at home is cut off, or you don’t have any food in the refrigerator, your water is cut off, and your lights is threaten to be cut off. The question is who is it that you are really trying to impress?

People know when you are broke, they might not ever say anything they just might keeping laughing in your face and just let you keep on fooling yourself. And by the way people that are rich or comfortable went through a process. A process of saving penny pinching put something away for a rainy day. Most rich people bargain shop. I see more rich people in the thrift shop then I do poor people. Tell your neighbor take off the mask.

We have become so superficial that we would rather hide what we really look like; this beautiful creature that God has made, rather than to take off the mask. And here’s a nugget. I rather be, an expensive original for one day, than a cheap copy all of my life.

What is a mask? A mask is something that hides or conceals the true face it is used to hide who a person really is. And I’m afraid that the church is filled with people who come to hide, it is filled with people who don’t want anyone to know what going on in our lives, so we show up for this big mascara party, and what better place is there to hide than within the church. We come in with a smile when we know that we are hurting. We will tell people that we are blessed beyond measure, when we know that we are in a crisis.

Many of us come to the house of God looking cheerful and smiling like there are no issues in our lives, no problems surrounding us, no money problems, but let me testify for myself. There are some days that I have walked in the house with sorrows, there are some days that I have been stress, oppressed, depress, suppress, overwhelm, quelled, and under pressure problems. There are days that we have been camouflaging, concealing, disguising, pretending and masking ourselves like nothing is wrong. And this ought to be the place, where we can take off our masks and ask the Lord, Lord please help me.