Fake!

June 13th, 2020| Topic: RaMbLeS | 0

The other day Fox 5 New York reported on a lady who shared something on her Facebook page:

I’ve had this beautiful succulent for about two years now. I was so proud of this plant. It was full, beautiful coloring, just an overall perfect plant. I had it up in my kitchen window. I had a watering plan for it, if someone else tried to water my succulent I would get so defensive because I just wanted to keep good care of it. I absolutely loved my succulent.”

That’s great. Plants need love, too. And water.

But two years later, when she decided to transplant the plant to a new vase, she made a shocking discovery:

I go to pull it from the original plastic container it was purchased with to learn this plant was fake. I put so much love into this plant! I washed its leaves. Tried my hardest to keep it looking its best, and it’s completely plastic! How did I not know this? I pull it from the container it’s sitting on Styrofoam with sand glued to the top!”

Well, plastic plants need love, too. (Though, they don’t need water.)

The good lady, a stay-at-home mom, shared photos of the plant.

I feel like these last two years have been a lie.”

There was a variety of responses from her fans on Facebook about this fake:

Ms. Platova wanted to know:

Where did the water from watering go for two years?”

Ms. Rouse:

Where’d you get it from? I’d like to get one! It really is the “perfect plant”! 😃”

Ms. McDowell confessed:

I fed a dead fish for a year before my daughter asked what i was doing.”

Mr. Whitmore noted wryly:

This is like my past relationship.”

Ms. Nelson was more consoling:

Thank you so much for sharing❤️. All is not in vain! Your love and loyalty has been proven. May the Lord bless you and multiply your gift of dedication. Admiration to you.”

Mr. Ver was practical:

Sue the seller!”

Fakes. Fakes everywhere. Even in life. And the Bible warns us of fakes.

But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come;
for people will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boastful, arrogant,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving,
unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, savage, not loving good,
treacherous, reckless, conceited, pleasure-lovers rather than God-lovers.
2 Timothy 3:1–4

There seems to be a theme to the list. The first item—“self-lovers”—sets the tone for everything that follows, with the last item in the last—non “God-lovers”—wraps it up. A misdirection of love.

All that to say they are ones …

… having a form of godliness, while denying its power.
2 Timothy 3:5

A façade of piety. An insubstantial devotion. A pretense, a counterfeit spirituality. Evil, duplicitous, hollow, and hypocritical. Fake godliness.

On the other hand …

But you should continue in the things you learned and are confident of,
knowing from whom you learned [them],
and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings
that are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus.
Every [text of] Scripture [is] God-breathed and profitable for teaching,
for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness
so that that the person of God may be capable, fully equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:14–16

The real stuff. The true way to godliness. Grounded in Scripture. Watered by Scripture. Growing through Scripture. Fruit via Scripture.

Don’t fake it.

SOURCES:
Fox 5 NY; Facebook