It's been sad to listen to the congressional inquiry of Roger Clemens. Sad, first of all, because of all of the thousands, maybe millions of tax payer dollars spent on investigating the use of HGH among professional baseball players. Seems like we have a great deal of needs in our country on which that money could have been better spent. Having got that out of my system, it's also sad to watch a vaulted sports hero stumble and stammer trying to protect his honor. Without going into detail, it appears to me that Mr. Clemens is doing his best to cover his tracks. Probably something we all try to do from time to time.
I thought it ironic, that congress is the one who was delving into the process of uncovering someone else's cover up attempts. Tell me, who has had more cover ups than anyone in recent history. Politicians are masters of cover ups. So maybe it does make sense that they get involved.
Cover ups are nothing new to politicians. In Matthew 28, when the soldiers come and tell the chief priests how Jesus miraculously raised from the dead, the chief priests came up with a cover up story to counter the disciples of Jesus' claims of His resurrection. They paid off the soldiers to lie. I wonder how that went over when Jesus showed up again. It's hard to keep things covered up forever.
What's funny is how often we try to cover up our inappropriate behavior. We pretend that God won't find out. It's almost like Adam and Eve in the garden trying to hide from God. Since God sees everything, it's impossible to pull the wool over God's eyes. Yet, that doesn't stop us from covering up our sins. We are so good at rationalizing. The more we tell the story, the more we believe it or rather want to believe it.
We can sometimes fool the people around us. We can make all the excuses we want. We can try minimize our actions, words, etc. We can mask our motives. But it doesn't take Judge Judy to expose the truth. Let's be honest with ourselves and with others. Let's be honest with God. Let's stop the cover ups. We're all imperfect. To acknowledge that is good news. It's good news because, when we're honest, we can start the healing process and allow God to renew us.
God, I can't count the cover ups I've tried in my life. It seems that I spend a lot of mental energy just trying to alleviate my own guilt. Confession is so hard. Saying I'm wrong, I screwed up is so hard. Thanks for your grace. Thanks for your forgiveness. Allow me to sense your love for me.
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