Fear can cause us to do silly things. It is because of our insecurity that we want people to stand in awe of us. Therefore we are pretentious; we try to keep them from knowing who we really are and what we are really like. Sometimes I think the most attractive thing about Jesus as a man was his unpretentiousness. Jesus did not try to create an aura of ‘mystique’; he was the type of person that ordinary people could relate to.
