Topic: How to be authentic when image is everything – Daily Devotional By Jack Graham Ministry 14 May 2020

How to be authentic when image is everything

May 14, 2020 by Dr. Jack Graham

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

—James 5:16

People today love to put on a good façade when deep down, they’re deeply hurting. Chuck Swindoll, the noted author and pastor said on this subject,

Most of us are pretty good at dressing up the outside of our lives. Perfectly decorated homes, immaculately landscaped yards, polished status symbol cars, dressed for success clothes, sparkling teeth. But underneath, many of our manicured lives are withering souls. The polluting emphasis on empty externals and prayerless activity has produced a smog in our inner world. In unguarded moments of silence and solitude, we can almost feel the grime that covers our real selves.

It’s so true, isn’t it? Especially in our culture, where image is everything and what’s inside is almost nothing. And behind the nice cars, big houses, and everything anyone could buy, there is pain and brokenness at a level unsurpassed in the history of the world.

What the world needs today is people who are authentic. It needs men and women who don’t just put on a show, but are the same people in every area of their lives. So instead of putting on an image, be who God made you by confessing your sins and showing others who you really are in Christ.

IN A WORLD WHERE IMAGE IS EVERYTHING, LIVE AUTHENTICALLY.