I was deceived
May 15, 2004 | 12:00am
[The devil] is a liar and the father of it. JOHN 8:44
It was dusk. My wife and I had just strolled across the famous Charles Bridge in Prague when a man approached us with a wad of money in his hand. "Forty-two Czech korunas for one dollar," he said. The official rate was about 35Ks for one US dollar. So I exchanged 50 dollars for 2,100 Czech korunas.
That evening I told my son about my good fortune. "Dad, I should have told you," he apologized. "Never exchange money on the street." We looked at the bills. The 100K note was a good Czech money but were Bulgarian notes no longer in circulation. I had been deceived and robbed!
Satan employs similar tactics (JOHN 8:44). He capitalizes on the deceitfulness of sin, using its "passing pleasures" (HEBREWS 11:25) to hide the pain that always follows. Sin may be attractive, even offering something that in and of itself is good but behind it is deception.
Our best defense against that deception is to have a growing knowledge of Gods Word. As we follow the psalmists example, well keep from being deceived by sin: "Your Word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You" (PSALM 119:11). DENNIS J. DE HAAN
Give me, O Lord, a strong desire
To look within Your Word each day;
Help me to hide it in my heart,
Lest from its truth my feet would stray BRANON
READ: JOHN 8:34-47
Gods truth uncovers Satans lies.
It was dusk. My wife and I had just strolled across the famous Charles Bridge in Prague when a man approached us with a wad of money in his hand. "Forty-two Czech korunas for one dollar," he said. The official rate was about 35Ks for one US dollar. So I exchanged 50 dollars for 2,100 Czech korunas.
That evening I told my son about my good fortune. "Dad, I should have told you," he apologized. "Never exchange money on the street." We looked at the bills. The 100K note was a good Czech money but were Bulgarian notes no longer in circulation. I had been deceived and robbed!
Satan employs similar tactics (JOHN 8:44). He capitalizes on the deceitfulness of sin, using its "passing pleasures" (HEBREWS 11:25) to hide the pain that always follows. Sin may be attractive, even offering something that in and of itself is good but behind it is deception.
Our best defense against that deception is to have a growing knowledge of Gods Word. As we follow the psalmists example, well keep from being deceived by sin: "Your Word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You" (PSALM 119:11). DENNIS J. DE HAAN
Give me, O Lord, a strong desire
To look within Your Word each day;
Help me to hide it in my heart,
Lest from its truth my feet would stray BRANON
READ: JOHN 8:34-47
Gods truth uncovers Satans lies.
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