Sort Of A Day Off
Ξ September 9th, 2007 | → Comments Off | ∇ Christian Living, Family, My Thoughts |
Welcome back!
While I would love to put a new devotional here today, I will be taking my niece back to college and won’t have the time to put up a new post. I’m here for a brief few moments.
This would be a good time to think about some of the things that have already been brought up, like…can Christians be deceived? The answer, sadly, is yes they can. In fact, I can give you a scripture that proves it.
(2Th 2:1-4) Now we beseech you, my brothers, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, that you should not be soon shaken in mind or troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word or letter, as through us, as if the Day of Christ is at hand. Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God.
Notice in the part where it says “Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away,”? The words “deceive” and “falling away” pop out very boldly to me. I went to God and asked Him what those meant. He taught me that those who love the Lord can, indeed, be deceived if they are not grounded in the Word.
But what about “falling away”? Those two words bugged me because it implied that some who do believe in God and Jesus Christ will decide that the belief is no longer true. Whoa! Wait a minute there. Seems to me that the ones falling away would be those who just THOUGHT they were Christians, not real Christians. But that didn’t fly because you have to actually have a belief before you can turn your back on it, which is the meaning of falling away from God.
So, before I go, I want to leave you with this thought. We need to be grounded so far into the Word that we do not miss the obvious. When we do miss God on something, we need to run back to Him so He can continue to protect us like Dads do. It is very possible for a Christian to buy into something that sounds so very much like Christianity because the deceiver is so good at what he does, deceive. So, God says that if we are willing to be grounded in the Word and we spend time in prayer with Him, then you will not be deceived because you will be seeking Him and looking at Him instead of what the world provides.
Tomorrow’s Topshelf will be a little later than usual. Enjoy your day with the Lord!!!
