Acting Christian

1 "Be especially careful when you are trying to be good so that you don't make a performance out of it. It might be good theater, but the God who made you won't be applauding. 2-4"When you do something for someone else, don't call attention to yourself. You've seen them in action, I'm sure—'playactors' I call them— treating prayer meeting and street corner alike as a stage, acting compassionate as long as someone is watching, playing to the crowds. They get applause, true, but that's all they get. When you help someone out, don't think about how it looks. Just do it—quietly and unobtrusively. That is the way your God, who conceived you in love, working behind the scenes, helps you out. (MSG Matthew 6)
Acting Christian. We all do it at times but we also know of many people who hide behind the mask of being the perfect Christian. Some are like politicians that glad hand everyone and make a big show of what they do and how they have helped. Once again we are looking at talking the talk and walking the walk. Thank God we also know those acting Christians who quietly go about doing, being, and loving. No fuss, no muss and no mask. I am reminded of the song, "They will know we are Christians by our love." If we could only keep singing that song in our heads until it becomes ingrained in our hearts and we truly become acting Christian and not Christians who are acting like Christians.