I Enjoy Reading Words That Uncover My Deception
View all responsesI once found a book that uncovers my deception when I read it with an open heart. Reading that book is like standing in the shower and letting very hot water run over your aching back. It hurts but if feels good. Despite the pain, reading that book (and also books by people who have allowed that book to burn in their heart) feels so good that I enjoy doing it in my leisure time.
That book is the Bible. I’ve read it over and over for far too many hours to count and it still brightly shines truth in my heart and “is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” (2 Timothy 3:16)
Devouring the Bible will gradually and gently show you any deception in your heart. It’s the app that will direct you to the best life has to offer, if you’ll humbly read and obey it.
Treasure truth. Deposit it in your heart. Truth is the currency of mental wealth. Deception is disrespect for the truth. What you gain by deception will collapse your conscience and hold you in bondage to lies.
When deception is defended as “free expression” instead of pointed out as a lie, a culture loses both truth and trust and crumbles into chaos. If you repeat unsubstantiated statements, there’s a good chance that you’re spreading lies. Accusations without accuracy and proof are frequently the free expression of falsehood. Speak from solid evidence not from mere allegations. Spreading other people’s lies (even if you believe them to be true) is dishonesty.
Deception is more popular than truth. Truth telling requires the hard work of honesty, courage, and humility, but deceiving people is quick and easy.
Deception distorts the difference between fact and fake. If people have deceived you, it’s because you have trusted them when they didn’t deserve your trust.
Unchecked feelings, desires, and opinions lead people and nations into great deception. When truth is twisted into ropes of deception and tangled up in passionately believed lies a society ignores and defies compassion, honesty, logic, conscience, and common sense.
To distort the truth or to outright lie to try to get what you want is to abandon reality and to undermine your conscience. It is to put your trust in deception and deceivers. Where there’s deception there’s a denial of reality. It’s a sin to twist, spin, and distort the truth. The book tells me: “Do not lie to one another.”
“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don’t have brains enough to be honest.” –Benjamin Franklin (A Founding Father of the USA)
To build on a foundation of deception is to build on something that won’t last. The Founding Fathers of the USA created “checks and balances” between the three parts of government so that deception could be exposed and minimized. To ignore, resist, or attempt to override those “check and balances” is to wade into shark infested waters. No individual or political party is 100% free from deception. We all need “checks and balances.”
The reception
Of deception
Distorts your
Perception
Of reality.
To deceive
Is to cause
People
To believe
Lies.
To betray
The truth
Is to embrace
Moral decay.
Deceivers
Who are
Overachievers
Can lead multitudes
Astray.
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