About five years ago I was washing dishes at the sink looking out at the wildlife in the back yard. Don’t say anything about me “washing dishes”. It would ruin my reputation. Underneath one of the bird feeders I saw a little bunny picking through the fallen sunflower seeds. I thought it a little unusual because bunnies like clover. A sudden movement sent the birds and squirrels running for cover. The bunny also ran for a big pine tree and then climbed five feet up and froze in place looking toward the danger. I gasped! I had never seen a rabbit climb a tree! Then it ran up another ten feet! But as I looked closer, what I had thought was a bunny was actually a squirrel … without a tail! Now, I have seen squirrels with scraggly tails and squirrels with bent/broken tails, but never a squirrel without any tail! But there it was! I’m not sure which is the better novelty: a squirrel without a tail or a bunny that climbs trees. Hey, have you ever been mistaken? I mean really, really mistaken? Perhaps you misjudged a person. Or you may have accused someone falsely. What you thought was true was later found out not to be the case. If someone pretends to be something that they are not, they are called a _____ . That’s right: a “hypocrite.” Jesus condemned the Pharisees in Matthew 23:28, “Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.” A tomb looks beautiful on the outside, but inside, it’s full of rotting flesh. Hey, don’t be a hypocrite. Live honestly. Don’t be mistaken as a rabbit … that climbs trees!
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