No Deception Like Self-Deception

Luke 18:11 (KJV)

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or *even as this publican.

The Greatest of All Deceptions is Deceiving Your Own Self…

Believing Your Own Lie!

Allow me please to re-submit  a poem I wrote a few years ago. (Please see text 2 of 2 following.)

Who's That Man in the Mirror?

His look on his face seems different from what I had imagined

The lines and the creases,

Oh what terror!

The Stranger that stares back from this mirror of life

Somehow seems familiar in this dimming light

The man I thought I was whose price was paid so dearly

Was it nothing more than a dream a mirage of empty toil that I now no longer see clearly?

I looked and I looked

I can't believe what I see

The Man in the Mirror

is not the man I thought I was

Somebody Please Tell Me Who could this be?

The person I see is not the man I wanted to be...

I looked and I looked

He looks like a description of someone I'd disdain

Could it be! Could it be!

He who stares at me?

Oh what unbearable Pain...

I twist and contort touch and feel

This man... this man... in the mirror he seems So Real

Alas I concluded with Defeat and refrain...

That this stranger is actually me on this runaway train

This man... this man... in the Mirror

The man I thought I was and who I really am,

I now Disdain!

I can’t stand to look at him and bear the pain...

RDF

牧師 Pastor, R.D. Frazier

1 Peter 4:11