It sounds like a college major but it is worse than that.  It’s the desire to present ourselves better than we really are and it has been an affliction of the human race for thousands of years.  Adam and Eve hid behind leaves, we hide behind a façade or an image of what we want people to think about us.  Warren Wiersbe said, or quoted, “Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.”  Ouch.  That’s a lot of misery!  The idea of becoming more than we are is good.  The idea of practicing what we believe we should be even when we are not there yet is also good.  The hypocrisy that says we are something that we are not is of the enemy.  Jesus warned us of this as did the prophets and apostles.  As the farm saying goes…”The chickens always come home to roost.”  We can’t really keep the front up forever, eventually we’ll be seen for what we really are and chances are somebody already knows.  What are we to do about this affliction?  1) Practice being good rather than looking good.  2) Say less, do more.  3) Ruthlessly eliminate contempt from your heart because you are not really that much better than anybody you despise.  4)  Be grateful for who you are and how God put you together.  5) Be accountable to a peer group that loves you enough to tell when you when you are living a double life.  Sunday, Lord willing, we’ll be studying Ananias and Sapphira.  They had some serious image management issues and it cost them their lives.  Let’s be who we are but be becoming who we were saved to be.