DECEIVERS ARE DECEIVED
“ARE YOU WALKING IN DECEIT?”
Isn’t it amazing how humans can walk in deceit, pretending to do or be something that they know is not true and think that no one will ever know.
The irony of it all is while walking in deceit, their belief that no one will ever know is the greatest deceit of all. – Now that’s deceit!
I wrote and posted the following in February of last year and thought I’d share it again.
ARE YOU WALKING IN DECEIT?
Deceit
The act or practice of deceiving;
concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading;
duplicity;
fraud;
cheating;
trick;
stratagem;
the quality of being deceitful;
falseness;
an act intended to deceive.
(www.dictionary.com)
Are you walking in deceit?
Are you living a double life?
Are you purposefully misleading your spouse, children, family, friends, pastor, fellow Believers, employer, neighbors and community into falsely believing something about you that is absolutely not true?
Are you covering up a sinful practice and think that you are so slick, so smart, so sly, so cunning and so convincing that no one will ever know what you are really up to, in to, or about?
Newsflash!!!!!……..God sees and He knows.
King David was guilty of adultery and murder and had an elaborate cover-up scheme but he forgot one key factor in the picture……..God.
II Samuel 11 records the details of what transpired and the chapter ends with this sentence, “But the thing David had done displeased the Lord.”
God saw all that David did even though David sought to cover it up.
God then revealed everything David did to the Prophet Nathan and sent Nathan to confront David.
II Samuel 12 records how Nathan went to David and exposed David’s secret sins (verses 7-10) and pronounced God’s judgment upon David and his household (verses 11-12, 14).
Verse 13 records David’s subsequent confession and forgiveness. In this verse David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord” (confession) and Nathan replied, “The Lord has taken away your sin, you are not going to die” (forgiveness).
Are you walking in deceit?
Just how God knew about David’s secret sin, He knows about yours.
Just how God revealed David’s secret sin, He can reveal yours.
Just how God judged David’s secret sin, He will judge yours.
Just how God forgave David upon confession and repentance of his sins, He will forgive you.
SELAH!
Listen to how King David describes the effects of sin and deceitfulness in Psalm 32:1-5 (Amplified Bible):
1 Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is he who has forgiveness of his transgression continually exercised upon him, whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
3 When I kept silence [before I confessed], my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long.
4 For day and night Your hand [of displeasure] was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
5 I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I did not hide. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord [continually unfolding the past till all is told]—then You [instantly] forgave me the guilt and iniquity of my sin. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
Are you walking in deceit?
God is a gracious God.
He warns and convicts us of our sins in the private confines of our heart and gives us a chance to repent before openly disciplining us, executing judgment upon our lives or exposing our sins publicly.
Verses 3 and 4 show us that God was dealing with David in regard to His sins, but instead of confessing them, David kept silent and resisted the conviction, even to the point of suffering physically.
Is God dealing with or convicting you of an area of deceit in your life even as you read this post?
In verse 5 David states that when he acknowledged his sin to God, no longer hid his iniquity and decided to confess his transgressions, then God forgave him the guilt and the iniquity of his sin.
I believe this was an extremely joyous experience for David and it is why he starts the Psalm out by saying, “Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is he who has forgiveness of his transgression continually exercised upon him, whose sin is covered. Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit.” (Amplified Bible)
Wouldn’t you like to experience the joy of that forgiveness?
Wouldn’t you like to experience the joy of having your spirit free of deceit?
In verse 6 of Psalms 32 states, “For this [forgiveness] let everyone who is godly pray—pray to You in a time when You may be found; surely when the great waters [of trial] overflow, they shall not reach [the spirit in] him.”
After receiving forgiveness for his sin, David called for all godly persons in need of such forgiveness to pray to God to receive it while God may be found stating that if they do, “surely when the great waters of trial overflow” or in other words, when all hell breaks loose, “they shall not reach [the spirit in] him” or that person will not be be overcome in his spirit by whatever he has to face.
Are you walking in deceit?
God desires that you repent today.
He wants you to lay down the burden of trickery, falseness and lies.
He wants you to confess your sins and forsake them.
He wants you to receive forgiveness, regain your joy and be free again.
He wants and you to have restored fellowship with Him.
Are you willing?
Will you do what He wants so He can give you what you need?
My prayer is that you accept His invitation and make it right today.
“If we [freely] admit that we have sinned and confess our sins, He is faithful and just (true to His own nature and promises) and will forgive our sins [dismiss our lawlessness] and [continuously] cleanse us from all unrighteousness [everything not in conformity to His will in purpose, thought, and action].”
(I John 1:9 – Amplified Bible)
Be encouraged!
Kim
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