This is Hospital Keningau. Impressive? Ya, looks so mighty and beautiful from the outside. Once you enter, the truth sinks in. Walls are full of cracks, tiles are 'erupting' and breaking apart, roofs are leaking. Contract workers do their chiselling each day to widen the cracks before refilling them with plaster. Looking at the cracks, words like 'giant spider-web', 'post-earthquake hit' come to mind. The broken tiles have been chiselled out, changed and retiled; and they crack again. I have never seen a new building needing such extensive repairs. And it has not even been 2 years since we moved in. People say it's because of shoddy workmanship, poor quality materials, cost cutting, corruption... The auditors confirmed that the hospital is by far not worth it's price. Government project, what do you expect la.
How well do we fare comparing our outward appearances and what is really inside us? Do we strive and struggle to maintain a good front, while turning a blind eye to the broken things inside? Good to take some time to do some honest soul-seaching.
"How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look fine on the outside but are full of bones and decaying corpses on the inside. In the same way, on the outside you appear good to everybody, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and sins."
Mat 23:27-28
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