Ever tried to tell if someone is authentic or phony? It isn’t easy. It gets even tougher when we look at ourselves.

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I remember seeing at Masada a one-inch painted black line running across the walls of the ruins. This line revealed the division between the original ruins below and the modern reconstruction built directly on top of it.
Unfortunately, we have no black line running down our lives and behaviors to reveal the division between the authentic and the phony. The line often seems easy to see in the lives of others, but discerning the hypocrite in ourselves?
That’s a challenge, even when we’re looking for it.
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