Superficial houses and people

You know, I never knew how superficial houses were until Tracey and I bought one. What I mean is that we have so many ways of covering and concealing those internal, underneath things we don’t want to show. If you lift up the shingles, you can see the bare frame of the house! The brick on the outside is simply a veneer. We cover the concrete foundation with carpet, hardwood floors or wood laminate. We cover the frame with sheet rock and then we cover the sheet rock with paint...LOTS AND LOTS OF PAINT! Then we cover the holes we cut with outlet covers and vent covers. We put frames around windows and doors. It seems like a necessary thing for us to do to our houses, but it seems like we are obsessed with it.
It also seems like this carries over to our bodies and our spiritual lives. Do we see how we are concerned with covering our bodies and faces? Our Oxford culture is very concerned with externals. Do we see how we hide what’s really going on internally with fake smiles and superficial words? Do we see that we struggle to have quality relationships when we cover up who we really are as God created us? Let’s go deeper and reveal what God created rather than what we created.