Masks, Masks, Masks

Masks, masks, and more masks, everywhere you look. A person is dare-some to get out without a protective mask covering the nose and mouth area of their face. I wonder if we will ever feel safe without a mask again.

Webster defines a mask as a covering for the face, worn for disguise, protection, etc.; anything that conceals. The people of the world are wearing them for protection against the Coronavirus. We are among the group known as the people of the world. We wear them too. Earlier this week we received a box of masks from a friend in Brundidge. Her family member had them shipped in from China. They are the ones with “95” on them. I’m proud of them but I’d rather just stay home.

I’ve been thinking of how we mask our sins. We cover them up with different masks. Some know they are openly living in sin but just choose to ignore it and go about their normal way of life. So we have the mask of ignoring. We know what is underneath the mask but we choose to ignore it. We know it won’t go away but maybe if we just forget about it for a while we can continue to live with it a while longer until it raises its sinful head again. As long as nothing is said we can ignore it.

Then there is the mask of excuses. We cover up with excuses the sins we participate in. We have excuses for anything we do that we know is not right. Masks won’t keep Satan from getting into our hearts. He can penetrate the best of the best of us when we are least expecting it.

We have the guidebook, the Bible, that is the ONLY truthful way to find out if we are masking our sins or not. There’s only one way to read it and that is by accepting what It says about the subject we are masking. Sin can’t be masked no matter how hard we may try. It will always be there and never go away. The good thing is that it is by those precious Words of God that we will be judged. All masks will come off on the day of judgment. Homemade masks, purchased masks and those shipped in from China won’t be able to masks our sins when we stand before God. He’s seen and He knows all things. We will stand before Him as we are, not as we have masked ourselves to be.

What’s behind our masks? What are we hiding? What have we been concealing? It may be time for us to come clean, throw away the masks, and accept things according to the Word of God. It is then and only then that we can walk freely, uprightly, and humbly in the sight of God knowing that we are covered by the greatest mask of all, the blood of Christ. Let’s put on the whole armor of God and walk freely and without fear in this world of sin.