Liar Liar pants on Liar

 

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

TDAgiantslayer@gmail.com 

 

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Ever hear the saying… Don’t play the fool? Now maybe at sometime someone said that to a person and they actually woke up and were like…oh yea I am the fool. But to be honest if you are playing the fool, it’s not typically something you realize right away. 

 

 

If we can all agree on one thing at this time in history I think its this… more than ever there is a lot of fake news out there, which means we can all be fooled at sometime or another. And in fact it behooves us to really make sure we are not the pawn. I know I have been fooled many times and in fact I have fought over the right to believe a lie… I just didn’t realize it at the time. There was a time I was convinced that if someone loved me they would never lie to me… but I realized that if THEY believe a lie, then in fact they were lying to me without realizing they were lying to me, because they were telling me something they thought was true, but actually was a lie… confusing right? But I think you know what I am saying.

 

I will never forget when my youngest was going in for a shot at the age of 4. He knew he had to get a shot, I knew he had to get a shot and so he wanted to know if it was going to hurt… I told him it would hurt a little, kind of like being pinched on the leg. He asked me to pinch him on the leg so he could see how much…. so yea, I pinched him… but not really that hard. On that fateful day he was calm and ready for the old pinch on the leg… uh I mean shot in the leg. I WILL NEVER FORGET THIS AS LONG AS I LIVE… After some small talk the doctor said well lets give you a quick shot (it already sounded painless to Reese) but the second that needle struck his leg he winced and started to cray looking at me dead in the eye and said in a very painful voice “you lied dad”. I felt horrible… I really truly didn’t think I lied, I told him a pinch, I pinched him… and yet somehow it was much worse than I thought. 

 

The enemy is so crafty that he will get people who are being deceived by the media and other influencers to stand up and defend the right of those who are deceiving them!

 

How crazy would it have been if through the tears Reese would have shouted in pain…’it didn’t hurt”.  But it did. 

 

I am on a quest to know the truth. Jesus said himself seek the truth and you shall find it. But that is not a shallow call to read a few things and listen to those we agree with - it means really see, study, dive into and know the facts, the ideas and facts around the facts and the truth of the facts and not someone else’s translation of the facts…. it also means continue to study the facts and the truth. We also see in scripture 2 tim. 2:15 study to show thyself approved unto God, so that we are not ashamed. This again means to study in every way possible and in every subject of our life- study to know Gods truth behind that subject so that we are not ashamed at what we promote as Godly… only to find out its not Godly at all, but more Garthly than Godly. 

 

Exodus 14:14 The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.”… 

This is such a nice verse… but the story behind it tells a different side. The Israelites are running from the Egyptians… they are closed in (and in fact God wanted them close in) The Israelits are mad at Moses for leading them out… sure they wanted to believe Moses, then they didn’t believe moses, and now they are blaming him… saying if we stayed in Egypt at least we would be alive… and Moses says stand still the lord will fight for you and you shall hold your peace.

 

So sometimes we believe the truth, and we feel like we got burned, but rather than waiting on God and trusting him to hold our peace we change our narrative, our theology, our understanding - we become spiritual, but not totally gullible like those fundamental evangelical Christians… 

So you grew up and thought Christianity was going to be easy, or get you the good life. Or you were thinking that Christians would always treat you right… and then you realized you maybe were deceived. What you should have been told was that Jesus is worth serving regardless of the sea does not open up or not.

 

If you treat your faith like it’s a part of your life it will only be a part of your life. It’s gotta be ALL your life. All in on Jesus regardless of what happened in my life… I will believe all of Scripture, I will trust him in every area of my life, I will choose to understand his word and act on it- even if I don’t understand why his word says what it says. 

(It’s a big part of my life- what I choose to believe feels good  - but feelings are but a deception)

 

I love Fyodor Da-story-ev-skee

Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend imbeciles. Fyodor Dostoevsky 

 

Everyone likes affirmation, and we many times deceive ourselves by choosing to believe only what we are comfortable with so as to affirm our own beliefs. but what we need is validation. You can be told your a good driver (wether you are or are not) but validation comes from authority. You get a drivers license and you are now validated. Every movement in the world today clamors for validation (BLM, LGBQT, Feminism, global warming, pro-choice, save the whales, socialism, animal rights  pick a topic etc…) But they will never get the fathers validation so they will forever be mad at those who do not affirm them… because once you have the fathers validation you don’t care who affirms you and you no longer feel the need to attack others.  Am I making sense today? let me dumb it down for you. If you are not willing to truly seek the truth (and that takes time and hard work) you will end up being deceived and typically your believed deceptions will be easy to feel affirmed by… but you will still not feel the fathers validation and you will run on empty swinging at the air trying to defend and prove your deceptions. 

 

Seek the truth at all costs… Seek his word… seek his face… seek him and not who you think he is.