Revelation 3:1 you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. Wake up, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die;

People say that you are something special, but from God’s perspective you are dead, and God’s command to you is simply, “wake up.” To be a different person than people see is to be different in that part of our life that people can’t see, our heart, our soul. To be different on the inside than what we are on the outside.

Matthew 23:27-28 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

To be a person like the Pharisees is a place of no growth, little accomplishment, low self-worth, defensiveness, and extra sensitivity to slights and hurts. When you keep pretending you get to the point where you have blind spots, and character flaws that you don’t see, but most other people do. The key to overcoming this natural tendency of all people to project an image of what we want people to believe that we are when we aren’t is to faithfully read, memorize, and meditate on the Bible.

Hebrews 4:12-13
For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.