The Core

Friday. 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 hoHest 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.