The True Story of A Real Fake

“What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.”
(Philippians 4:9)

In 2002 in the movie, “Catch Me If You Can” Leonardo DiCaprio played the part of real life con artist Frank Abagnale Jr. Mr. Abagnale, born April 27, 1948, is CEO of Abagnale & Associates, security consultants & is known for his history as a former con-man, check forger, imposter, and escape artist.

He became notorious in the 1960s for passing $2.5 million worth of meticulously forged checks across 26 countries over the course of five years, beginning when he was only 16 years old. He claimed to have assumed no fewer than eight separate identities, some of which were an airline pilot, a doctor, a U.S. Bureau of Prisons agent and a lawyer. The man was amazing, at being something he was not. The tagline for the movie was “The true story of a real fake.”

Being fake, may get you a shot at $2.5 million, but it wont make you godly or spiritual. In Philippians 4:8-9 Paul tells us to practice whatever is true, honorable, just, pure lovely, commendable & anything excellent or worthy of praise. Practice these things that you have seen in me, Paul says. Paul says, I’m not faking it, I’m really striving daily to walk with Christ. If you will only do it, you will be transformed into the likeness of Christ.

Don’t do these things to look godly & spiritual, but to become godly & spiritual. Don’t do these things to fake people out & to make them think you are what you‘re not, but strive to live them to become more like Christ. You live them, you allow Christ to live through you, unhindered…people will notice the difference.

“To call yourself a child of God is one thing. To be called a child of God by those who watch your life is another thing altogether.” (Max lucado)

Vern