Emphasis Preaching Journal

Fifty years ago I read a story titled, “Clothes Make the Man.” One thief dressed up as a policeman to help other thieves get away with their crime. However, the man dressed as a policeman was simple minded and soon started to act like a policeman. At the end of the story the “policeman” helps apprehend his “friends” the criminals. The story shows that we can act ourselves into a different way of life. Social psychologists note that we as often act ourselves into a way of believing as believe ourselves into a way of acting.