Did you open the door to find your porch icy?
If you talk to anyone that grew up in the North you’ll hear stories of snow days. Snow days were when it was too icy and snowy for the buses to run and they have to cancel school for the day. I have fond memories of setting around the radio as a kid as the announcer would announce them, and cheering on my school’s name when I heard it or crying in defeat if I didn’t. It was always up to the superintendent of the school system to make the call weither school would be cancelled or not. I remember one particular year that a guy and I were talking at school. He confessed to me that a bunch of boys had gone out to the superintendent’s house one cold night and took buckets of water and threw the water all over his steps. The water froze in sheets on his porch. The guy told me that the next morning had been below freezing but all in all it had been a nice day, and school was cancelled. He laughed as he told me this story. It was quite the boyhood prank, but it had worked because we didn’t have school the next day. As we’d all guessed the superintendent probably stepped out on the porch the next morning realized his front steps were frozen over and decided that it wasn’t worth trying to get the buses out.
I was thinking about this story the other day and began to think a lot about deception. Deception is practice of misleading somebody: the practice of deliberately making somebody believe things that are not true, or something intended to mislead somebody: an act, trick, or device intended to deceive or mislead somebody.
You see the devil has no authority. People often times think that the devil is so powerful. Nope, he’s not. His only authority is to deceive people. He’s trying to trick them. In Genesis 3:13 it talks about the serpent deceiving Eve. 1 Peter 5:8 says “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.” The devil is LIKE a lion. . . He’s not a lion. He’s trying to trick you. He’s trying to deceive you into believing he’s all powerful, but he’s not!
Pastor Greg has been talking a lot about the wiles of the devil recently. Ephesians 6:11 says, “Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” That the devil sets up tricks and deceits for us. That are well thought out.
What happens here is that too often as believers we see this wile or trick the devil is trying to throw at us and we believe it. We’re like the superintendent of the school we open the door see the wile. We might step out, but all in all we turn the other direction. We believe the deceit instead of continuing to move forward. What we need to realize is that if we would choose to believe the truth. If we would choose to guard our hearts from deceit we could walk off that porch of the wiles of the devil and realize that on the other side of this thing God has a beautiful day planned for us.
Is there anything in your life that you looked at and ran? Are you believing in a deceit from the devil or the truth of God almighty? James 1:16 says, “Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.”
We must be on our guard to deception. We must stay diligent. We must stay firmly in the truth of the Bible and the rock of Christ Jesus. We must realize that deceit is a lie, and what Jesus said is the truth.
I was thinking about this story the other day and began to think a lot about deception. Deception is practice of misleading somebody: the practice of deliberately making somebody believe things that are not true, or something intended to mislead somebody: an act, trick, or device intended to deceive or mislead somebody.
You see the devil has no authority. People often times think that the devil is so powerful. Nope, he’s not. His only authority is to deceive people. He’s trying to trick them. In Genesis 3:13 it talks about the serpent deceiving Eve. 1 Peter 5:8 says “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.” The devil is LIKE a lion. . . He’s not a lion. He’s trying to trick you. He’s trying to deceive you into believing he’s all powerful, but he’s not!
Pastor Greg has been talking a lot about the wiles of the devil recently. Ephesians 6:11 says, “Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” That the devil sets up tricks and deceits for us. That are well thought out.
What happens here is that too often as believers we see this wile or trick the devil is trying to throw at us and we believe it. We’re like the superintendent of the school we open the door see the wile. We might step out, but all in all we turn the other direction. We believe the deceit instead of continuing to move forward. What we need to realize is that if we would choose to believe the truth. If we would choose to guard our hearts from deceit we could walk off that porch of the wiles of the devil and realize that on the other side of this thing God has a beautiful day planned for us.
Is there anything in your life that you looked at and ran? Are you believing in a deceit from the devil or the truth of God almighty? James 1:16 says, “Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.”
We must be on our guard to deception. We must stay diligent. We must stay firmly in the truth of the Bible and the rock of Christ Jesus. We must realize that deceit is a lie, and what Jesus said is the truth.
Comments
Post a Comment