Our Private Side?

Our private side is often the side we hide, the public only sees our abridged version, our best side.
Makes me wonder about Donald Trump's private side, if someone will act the way he does in public perhaps his private life is much worse. He is on his third wife, that might be a clue. We tend to show our best side in public, if that is his best side I fear what his private side is like, you know.....the real Trump!
 
Either what you see is what you get, which is very rare, or he is even worse in private. Almost no one has only one true side they show others, everyone has an edited side they show the public, their church group or the shop keeper, the mail man and others to maintain a persona that makes people like us.

Trump the Class Clown

Can anyone answer this question?

Is it possible that Trump made a bet with someone that he would be able to be as outrageous and bombastic as possible as long as he said what the conservatives wanted to hear and they would still vote for him?

He keeps lampooning everyone in mocking terms, even a disabled reporter, as though it is perfectly natural and acceptable. While I have been enjoying the show as I never have before, laughing until my sides ached at times at Trumps cartoony antics, I cannot figure out for the life of me why anyone would take him seriously.

He is a clown, very entertaining clown at a times, when a little levity helps to deter us from all the ugly in the world. Do we really want a president like that, who lacks all sense of decorum and graciousness?

Perhaps YOU will be the next to be mocked by Trump! LOL

Are We Hid Behind the Holy Spirit?

"True Faith always produces good works, good works never produce faith" Hal Lindsey

 

Those who are attempting to be good by doing good deeds are merely showing their desire to be elevated in the eyes of others, their motives are fleshly. 

 

Those who are led by the Holy Spirit will not seek to do a good work, they will be led by God to obey Him, the glory will go to God. The good works will be present, but not because they are trying to be good, but rather a natural and consistent outpouring of Spiritual blessing.

 

James 2:14-26

"14 What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him?

15 If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food,

16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? 17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.

18 But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.”

19 You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder.

20 But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless?

21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

22 You see that faith was working with his works, and as a result of the works, faith was perfected;

23 and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.

24 You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.

25 In the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?

26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead."

 

Those who love the Lord and do good works never feel a need to talk about it, they just live it. Those who feel a need to discuss their good deeds are often being led by their desire to be praised for what they have done. Those who do their good deeds in the Spirit, never feel a need to express it to others, they are satisfied with obedient to Christ while letting Him have the glory.

 

Matthew 6:2 ""So when you give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be honored by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full."

Matthew 6:5 ""When you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full."

 

Our walk with the Lord is so satisfying to us that the praise of men is not necessary. I don't know who said this, but it makes sense to me from a Biblical perspective, here is the quote;

 

"One of the elements of holiness is the absence of self awareness."

 

Good works done to impress others or to feel superior always produces more pride, the more we indulge in this form of bragging, the more arrogant we become. 

 

True faith that produces good deeds in the Spirit, always brings the glory to God. We need to learn to be "hid behind the Holy Spirit.