Monday, November 17, 2008

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Well, if you grew up on “The Brady Bunch,” you might want to cover your ears. You see, sweet, perfect Marcia Brady wasn’t so perfect after all. Maureen McCormick, the actress who played Marcia, just dropped a reality bombshell in her new book. She writes there about her off-camera cocaine binges, her drug addiction, her unwanted pregnancy, even trading sex for drugs. Here’s what she said, ”As a teenager, I had no idea that few people are everything they present to the outside world. Yet there I was, hiding the reality of my life behind the unreal perfection of Marcia Brady” Well, she’s not alone.

I’m Ron Hutchcraft, and so many folks live trapped between the “lookin’ good” role they play and an ugly, maybe frightening reality behind the image. That gap slowly tears you apart inside unless and until you can find someone who will take you as you really are and help you get to who you want to be and who you need to be. For millions of us, that person’s name is Jesus. He already knows everything about me—good, bad, ugly. The Bible says, ”Lord, You have searched me and You know me. You are familiar with all my ways” (Psalm 139:1 , 2). So there’s nothing to hide.

When King David was hiding some awful sins, he found out how to go free. He said, “Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not cover up. I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the Lord and You forgave the guilt of my sin” (Psalm 32:5 ).

I’ve found, and you can find in Jesus Christ, the one person who can fix and forgive what’s dark or broken behind the mask, because He died to pay for all that junk and He can set you free. If you’d like to know more about belonging to Him, I hope you’ll go to our website. It’s ALifeThatMatters.org because God put you here to live a life that matters.

This radio program references: Psalm 139:1-2 ; 32:5