Deception Series: Who is Deceived?

During my morning quite time (my shower), God put on my heart the topic of Deception.  He gave me many ideas from "the beginning of deception" to modern "crime'.  I will later explain these in this series.  First, however I wanted to talk about who is deceived and how.  Dr Chuck Missler says; The only real barrier to truth is thinking you already have it.  What a simple but powerful statement.  I am going to flip his statement and say; the only way you can be deceived is thinking you can't or aren't?

Now you know me well enough that I am not talking about facts or what we think is true, but TRUTH.  Truth is and must be universal or it simply is not.  What is true for you and not for me may be (I doubt it), however what is truth for you must be truth for all to be.

If there is no truth, there is no deception, and since some know there is truth and  several know there is deception, then we know most are deceived (if not all to some extent).  God does not deceive His people (1 Corinthians 14:33) and tells us the only way for deception to enter is a lack of truth (1 John 1:8).  Clearly we can deceive ourselves and others definitely try deceive us by words and actions (Eph 5:6, 2 Th 2:3, 1 Jn 3:7).  King David's illness was an invitation for his enemies who were "planning his deceit" (Psalms 38:12).

Going back to Dr Missler's statement;  The only real barrier to truth is thinking you already have it.  This reminds me of those commercials when a shopper tries to pick their brand from another and picks the one promoted instead of their own and then in their mind asks; I wonder what other questionable choices have I made in the past?  There life is flashed back to big collard shirts and bell bottom pants.  As goofy as that is, it raises the question of what do you think, believe or know and how or why do you?

Next time we will talk about the deceiver, whom ever that is...

Blessings

ernie