THE CORE
Acts 5:1-11
Of all deceptions religious deception is the meanest, the most contemptibly irreligious. In pretense there’s a veneering of the purest and holiest of all things—devotion to God. It’s supposed to be that way clear into the core. It really covers up the unholiest and impurest of things—selfishness. But it doesn’t hide them long. The veneering’s too transparent, as a rule. Nobody’s befooled; least of all God. Let’s be the same at skin and core, pure and true.