We, more times than we would like to admit, see things one way, when in fact the opposite is true. So often this deals with our perspective of what we think is truly important in life. In those instances, you may even say we deceive ourselves. Often, we are our own worst enemy when it deals with being deceived. Things seem one way, but they may be another way altogether.
This reminds me of the following story. A medical student spent his summer vacation working as a butcher in the daytime and a hospital orderly in the evenings. Both jobs, of course, involved wearing a while smock. One evening he was instructed to wheel a patient on a stretcher into surgery. The patient, a woman, looked up at the student and let out an earthly scream. “Oh, no,” she wailed, “it’s my butcher!” Ha! Ha! We laugh, because we can see how she was deceived.
The fact of the matter is being deceived is not always a laughing matter. In fact, the Holy Bible tells us that being deceived can have dire consequences in our lives. Galatians 6:7 says exactly what I mean, “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” This verse commands us to take a close look at how we live our lives and the motives behind what we do. It goes on and says, “Do not be deceived.” Why? Because the actions we do and the thoughts we think are in turn what influences our lives. Act and think biblically this week!
