Hypocrisy in our lives

Everyday people encounter some type of hypocritical person whether it be with their jobs, religion, or race discrepancy. My experience with this was related with religion. As a child, my parents tried to teach me about religion and the importance of being able to show it to the people around you. Me in turn being very easily influenced by the people around me, it seemed like all I wanted to do was fit in with the cool kids, but they never showed any interest in religion or the thought of it. That's when I decided to start going to F.C.A or The Fellowship of Christian Athletes. At first i thought it was weird how all these cool kids were telling everyone about their problems and asking the crowd to pray for them. About a week later I finally realized that these people were amazing at what seemed to be both in and out of school, but I was certainly wrong. The president of my group had a beautiful girlfriend by my standards and they seemed to be the happiest relationship in the school. Him and I became great friends until the day he decided to teach us about how to keep a relationship strong. What he used from the bible, the stories, and the lessons at first gave me more confidence in my relationship with my girlfriend, but I wanted to know more about what he was talking about so after our huddle was over I asked if he wanted to go eat on my treat. He declined saying, "I have some prior engagements but give me a rain check on it." I was more than happy to except that so after school I went to taco bell and read all the lessons my president had told me about that morning. Twenty minutes into my meal and I hear a very familiar voice that I wished I had never heard. My president was sitting on the other side of the restaurant with his girlfriend's best friend. He was rubbing her legs and her hand telling her she was beautiful. It felt like someone had stabbed my heart and all I wanted to do was pull it out and bleed to death. My friend, my mentor had betrayed, not just me, but all the other people he had taught that morning. Most people would use that as black mail, but me I ripped out the page in the bible that he had taught us that morning and highlighted it. As I walked toward him his eyes told me he knew he was wrong and it was like I was God telling him he was wrong. I said nothing but here is a lesson for your life. I never told anyone that story at school but he knew. Not a week later he resigned his position and broke up with his girl friend. I asked him the last day of school why he did it and all he said was, "My life will have to get back on track before I ever teach another innocent person about doing right." My reply was, "I will pray for you." Never again have I seen him but I have kept my word and I hope that the lesson I showed him has changed his life for the better. Just because hypocrisy is every where doesn't mean that you can't take a lesson from it and use it to make your life more succesful.