Today's Gospel reading (Matthew 23:37-32) has Jesus chewing out the Pharisees:
"On the outside you appear righteous, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing." (Mt 23:28)
Mithc Finley writing in today's Living Faith talks about the Pharisee in us all. We all try to appear to be "Good Christians" (and that definition changes depending on who we may be with at the time) to others yet inside we all have our battles with sin. We all have parts of ourselves that we try to hide from other people. We all wear masks and try to appear better than we are. Finley invites us to pray "Lord Jesus, help me to be true to you and to myself." I would add "and please help root out the evil that lies within." Amen.
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