100 ways to deceive!

 

Have you noticed how some people repeatedly make the same mistakes in a hundred different ways. The power of deception cleverly keeps your conscience at bay keeping you guilt-free. We humans are good at camouflaging our debaucheries as clean acts. In any crime story you watch or hear, you will notice that the culprit seldom feels guilty about the crime he/she commits. The prime reason being that we tend to perceive things only from our point of view, narcissistically.

Every time when someone does wrong, he/she finds convincing explanations as to why it was done. The blame is projected on life’s circumstances, peer pressure taking the focus away from us. We are consciously aware of the fact that the wrong that we are doing has the potential to ruin our career, reputation, and family. To cover up the complexity, we start blaming people or external causes to defend our self-image and fail to admit the fact that there is something wrong with them as a person.

We are living in an age where evil is made to look good. One Preacher puts this beautifully, "Satan will change the name of sin to make sin more adaptable to accept. So instead of changing our ways, we will change the wording. Instead of paedophilia, we'll call it minor-attracted people. Instead of sexual exploitation let's call it adult entertainment. Instead of sex cults, where we bump and grind, we'll just call them music clubs. Instead of cults, we'll call them clubs. Instead of adultery, we'll call them swinging and open marriages. Instead of mental illness let's call it gender dysphoria. Instead of gender mutilation, let's call it gender transitioning. Instead of fornication let's call it intimacy. Instead of lust let's call it love. Instead of calling it a spiritual battle of good and evil, let's calls it political. Let's call it phobia. Let's call it hate speech. Call it something else. We are not called baby killers; we're called abortionists. It's no longer sin; it's complex. It's an addiction. It's a disorder. It's an obsession. so we don't feel bad about our sins, we change the name of them and when we hear the truth preached, we feel conviction but we condemn the preacher as hate speech."

The purpose of Jesus coming to the earth was to offer salvation through His sacrifice. Salvation is not about our own efforts, trying to look to people, speaking to the portrayals or images created by us, being ritualistic (every time an improvised one), visiting the shrines calling it holy place or holy land to cleanse our self-created mess. Our sin problem can only be solved by accepting the forgiveness Jesus has offered to mankind. If you notice from all that He preached, He only emphasized the condition of the human heart by saying, "Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand.". And He offered a complete forgiveness when we approach Him by faith and prayer. There is only one way to do the right thing and that is when our heart embodies the truth of repentance. I am sure we don't want to regret when we stand before the judgement of God.  Let me close with the quote from the Bible, "For we must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ, so that each may be repaid for what he has done in the body whether good or evil.". Afterlife is for sure and may we set our priorities right, here on earth. He is close to all who call upon Him for help.

 

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