“So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish.” Job 8:13 Psalm 31:6 teaches: ” I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.” Proverbs 10:28 adds “The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.” A hypocrite is “a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives.” Vocabulary.com Beloved, natural faith can become wishful thinking, so thinks the pretender, but is “hope deferred”. It makes the heart sick — how long can wishful thinking be sustained? When a person pushes a belief that is not true in the hope that it will become true, he or she will reap a great disappointment — maybe in the realization of that very false hope. ” …but he that seeketh…