Be Aware of Deception

Do you ever find yourself thinking more on a surface level and ending up missing what is really going on entirely? You think materially, rather than spiritually, and you judge by outward appearances rather than looking deeper into what is really happening? You assume that what you are seeing or hearing is the truth, when it may not be the truth at all? Because you assume that the people speaking are actually who they say that they are, and that they really believe what they are saying that they believe?

We have to be very careful that we don’t judge by outward appearances only, either against or in favor of someone or something. For not everything or everyone is what or who they appear to be outwardly. Many liars and deceivers and charlatans and wolves in sheep’s clothing are among us pretending to be who they are not, pretending to believe what they do not believe and to do what they do not put into practice in their lives. They are showmen and women whose whole purpose it is to deceive with their lies.

Now we must be careful that we don’t see a snake everywhere we look, and that we don’t go around suspecting everyone of telling us lies to the point of paranoia. But we must also not be fully trusting of everyone, assuming that everyone is who they say that they are, doing what they are saying that they are doing, with the motives that they are claiming for their actions. For we live in an age of massive deception. And many fake their Christianity in order to get Christians to fall into their webs of deceit, to believe the lies.

And what is the leaven being spoken of here? It is a spreading influence of evil. It is the spreading influence of sin and of false teachings and lies which are now permeating so much of what are called “churches” and the lives of those who profess faith in Jesus Christ. This is happening big time here in the USA. And this isn’t coming just through the gatherings of what are called “the church,” but through television, radio, the internet, social media, music lyrics, and the news media, et al. And this is happening around the clock.

When I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s we did have a television most of the time, I think, although it didn’t always work. And I am certain that we were influenced by it unknowingly. But what could be viewed on television was then very controlled. And we did have radios where we could listen to music and to some people speaking, and so we were influenced by those forms of media, I am certain, although most of us were probably not aware of how much we were being influenced by these media sources.

Now it is bizarre and unfathomable what you can watch on TV or on the internet or listen to on the radio or on other media sources today. I am certain that I have very limited knowledge as to what all can be accessed via these forms of media in our world today, but I do know that they provide a whole world of evil at people’s fingertips in the privacy of their own homes or in the corner of a room where no one else can see what they are viewing. And lies, lies, lies, abound just about everywhere you look these days.

So we can’t just evaluate people or situations or what we think we are seeing or hearing or reading on a surface level only. Too many liars exist, and they are all over these media sources laying traps for us to fall into. And everyone is not like this, but we should not assume that everyone is on the “up and up,” either. They may sound very sincere. But it could be a trap. It may sound like truth, but it could be loaded with lies and deception. It may sound good to our ears but be filled with poison as coming from a viper.

So we need to be people of discernment who do not take everything and everyone at face value, for deceivers and wolves in sheep’s clothing abound! And traps are being laid for us on the internet, for certain, hoping that we will fall into them. And not everything is going to be obvious on a surface level. But this isn’t just happening on the internet, or via other media sources, but this is happening in the gatherings of some “churches” where people are being lied to via false teachings on a weekly basis.

Testing the spirits: [Matthew 7:15-23; Matthew 24:11-14; John 10:1-15; Romans 16:17-19; 2 Corinthians 11:3,13-15; Ephesians 4:11-16; Philippians 3:2; 2 Peter 2:1-22; 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22; 1 Timothy 1:3-7; 1 Timothy 6:3-10; 2 Timothy 3:1-9; 1 John 4:1-6; Jude 1:1-25]

Pray, Pray, Pray

Based off Various Scriptures
An Original Work / September 6, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Pray that eyes may enlightened be,
So they may know Christ.
Pray that they may Him better know,
Strengthened by His pow’r.
Pray that they may grasp
How wide and long
And high and deep
Is Christ’s love.
Pray that they may be filled
To the fullness of God’s love.
Pray with thanksgiving.

Pray for an open door for me,
So I may share Christ.
Pray when the gospel is proclaimed –
Shared with clarity.
Pray words are given me so
I declare the gospel fearlessly.
I pray for you to be active
Sharing your faith, too.
Pray continually.

We oft not know for what to pray,
So we ask for help.
The Spirit intercedes for us –
Words cannot express.
Just keep on praying for the saints
With all kinds of requests to God.
Pray they may have faith to
Please their God in ev’ry way.
Pray with joyfulness.


Be Aware of Deception
An Original Work / June 27, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love