Chameleon-like Believers

Excerpts: Chameleon-like Believers Text: Jas 1:8 Why do people behave as a chameleon? 1:- Secret struggles or personal battles. What you don't want people to know about is a tougher battle to fight. 2:- Passion to trying to be someone that you are not. Behaving a temperament that you don't have makes your life miserable. 3:- Identity crisis. Not knowing or appreciating who you are, to even placing value on yourself. 4:- Lack of personal dealings with Christ. Many people merely followed the crowd that wear religious garment who were not changed from inside out. 5:- People with unhealed wounds or unresolved negative scars of the past. 6:- Wanting to belong to a fake social/spiritual class. There possessed persons that uses their negative spirit to foretell in churches, Acts 16:16-18. Some persons make a conscious effort just to be seen as highly social placed person. Consequences of being a chameleon: Job 20:5-8. 1:- Rejection and ejection from your father's house, Rev 3:15-16. 2:- Unanswered prayers from the commonwealth of Israel, Jas 1:6-7. 3:- Mistaken identity for destruction, 2Chron 18:29-32, Jehoshaphat escaped just by grace, for acting the wrong person. 4:- Lack of destiny fulfillment and cancelled divine assignment, 1Sam 2:30-36. 5:- Compounded failures and death, 1Sam 28:8-20. How to avoid being a chameleon? 1:- Embrace sincerity and truth, John 16:13; 1Tim 3:15. 2:- Walk your talk both in private and in the public, Matt 5:37; Jas 5:12. 3:- Keep the right company, 1Cor 15:33; 1Cor 11:1. 4:- Trust Jesus to behave Him, John 1:12. 5:- Love your person that God has made you. Ps 139:14. 6:- Be accountable. Live your life within the purview of a mentor's view. 7:- Avoid being too secretive. Learn how to risk being vulnerable. Finally, avoid being a hypocrite, Isa 32:6. Refuse to be a pretender. A pretender is like an addict: merely religious but don't have a heart to pray. But to be delivered: Trace it, erase it, and replace it. For as light is different from darkness so must your character and identity must be different from the people of the world. Pretenders wish to make everyone happy but end up hurting everybody. Only a life handed over to Jesus is freed from the yoke of hypocrisy, John 6:21. Ekundayo E. OLORUNDARE