Don't Be Deceived

I recently went on the internet and as I was preparing to peruse my e-mail, an interesting offer to take a "quick and free" IQ test came up on the screen. It was intriguing. It has been some time since I took such a test and I wanted to know how much I'm slipping with the passage of time.

I answered the questions as best I could and felt pretty good about most of them and kinda stupid about others, but overall I went to the "results button" to click my way to info about my remaining smarts.

What came up was page after page of offers for me to receive information (read that spam) from company after company who just wanted permission to flood me with internet offers. I ain't got the time and I did not want anything they were trying to get me to subscribe to and I finally quit the exercise.

I never did get the IQ results.

My point? So much in life is not what it appears to be on the surface. There are hundreds of ways men have devised to deceive us, to lead us onto paths we don't really want to be on. And most of those paths are longer than we imagine even if our curiosity is aroused only enough to get us to take a few steps to just see what's there.

Most often, it'll be page after page of trouble and junk. Things we don't need to fill our hearts and minds with.

So, here's some Heavenly direction for your thinking today. It's guaranteed to make you happier, more fulfilled, more like Jesus and to help you steer clear of the deceitful mess out there like that "offer" for my IQ test. From Philippians 4, verse 8. we read, "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."

Pretty good advice, huh? And the Teacher who spoke these words is pretty special, too. He saved Paul and used him to communicate it to us. Let's just do it!

Pray. Please pray for revival for our church, our nation, one another, absolutely everybody. Then this world, this nation will truly see "change."

In His Love
Walter