Really?
Pretentious people don't really get the most out of life. They are so busy putting up the 'pretense' they don't really get much time to enjoy what is really happening all around them! We cannot forget the importance of living genuinely - showing our "real colors" vs. living with a "facade" in place. The tragedy of not living a life that always puts on a show or keeps up a certain image is that others only see only a pretense of happiness. Too many times, it is easy to hide behind what we want to portray to the world vs. being our real selves. This is because we interpret our 'real' selves as unworthy of public display, not of value - so we create a facade to hide behind. This is a very dangerous place to be - live there long enough and you will become less and less familiar with what exists behind the facade! A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life. (Proverbs 13:7) God wants us to realize a...