THE GREAT DECEPTION DOES NOT HAVE TO BE

A big question for each of us, “How do I choose to live?”  We must face that amazing power.

Here is a history we do well to understand:  God called a certain family to be “His chosen people.” Their story fills the Old Testament.  As Eric and I read through the Bible together every day, this has become frightfully clear:  the chosen did not see the privileged place and blessings they were freely given.  Their downward spiral is sadder and sadder to my soul every time we read through their history.  Who rejected who? God’s chosen people rejected Him over and over … and over!

Why didn’t they see what they had?  Their hearts were not faithful.  Their minds were not true!

There is a “still, small Voice” speaking in my ear, in your ear: “This is the way, walk in it, when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.” You and I make decisions every day, sometimes every minute.  That Voice in your ear is the LORD, who affirms choices, or gives you pause, when you are purposefully following Him.  “This is the way…” Isaiah 30:21.

There is another powerful, driving, force in this world: the prince of the power of the air, “Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience.” Ephesians_2:2

One call is from the Creator of the heavens and the earth, Jesus.  He says his love is never ending, always there, always listening for your call to Him.  The other is a deceit unlike anything other.

So, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour… Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brothers that are in the world.”   “But the God of all grace, who has called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.”  1Peter 5:8-10.

Friends and neighbors are going through crises today.  Even in this world wide agony every one of us is privileged to call for Him.  God knows.  The Lord Jesus cares. “Call to me, and I will answer you, and shew you great and mighty things which you know not.” Jeremiah 33:3.

What a thought!