Deceit is a lie or a dishonest action. Let me give you an example we can all relate to. Let’s say your spouse comes home and you’re SO angry that if someone stuck you with a pin you would just burst. He or she asks you “What’s wrong” and what do you say? “Nothing.” You’re so angry that’s all you can answer. But that “nothing” is dishonest and misleading. My friends, it’s deceitful.
Proverbs 20:17 tells us, “Food gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel” [just as sin may be sweet at first, but later its consequences bring despair]. Another way to say that is that while the words of deceit might seem sweet at first, afterwards its true nature is surely to be exposed. Let’s look at another example. In Genesis 3:12-13, Adam and Eve both passed the buck. Adam claimed it was the woman, and the woman said it was the serpent that beguiled here. To beguile means to deceive. Look at how the serpent made the deceit sound sweet at first. But then later, the truth was exposed and Adam male and female were cursed and put out the garden.
Deceit causes people to get angry with God and therefore they slide back from God’s will. But the truth makes us go forward in God, the truth enlightens us, and the truth makes us bend our will in subjection to the will of God. “Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord” Jeremiah 9:6.
Be enlightened, beloved, and go forward in truth!!
With all that said, let the church say Amen… and AMEN!
