COVER-UP
A children’s wading pool in an East Coast inner-city neighborhood had been closed for two years. City workers finally painted the pool, filled it with water, and opened it to the delight of excited children.
A short time later, though, neighborhood parents were furious. Eighteen children had cuts on their feet! It seems the pool hadn’t been cleaned out before it was painted. The workmen had merely spray-painted over glass debris on the pool bottom.
The harm done by these city workers is like the damage done by the Pharisees of Jesus’ day. They made cover-up into an art. They dressed for success. They knew how to make good impressions. But on the inside they were phony. Jesus called them “whited walls”: sepulchers looking pretty on the outside, but full of dead men’s bones on the inside.
Jesus also said, “All their works they do to be seen by men” (Matthew 23:5). What does this mean to you?
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