Thanksgiving dinner is on the table with all the fixings. The turkey with its golden brown skin and tender meat is ready to be carved. The mashed potatoes are whipped into a creamy perfection and the cranberry sauce is the kind with whole berries just as it should be. Everything is perfect until the host explains that there is just a touch of arsenic in the gravy, but to go ahead and enjoy. Since it is mostly gravy everything should be fine. In the same way deception is often found in small doses mixed into what was once truth.
This is the same message we get from the world and spiritual powers of the world, as well as the warning we read in Colossians 2. Just like the arsenic makes all the gravy poisonous, so does a little deception makes truth a lie. There are examples of this all around us.
- God made us in his image and yet we pervert the beauty of God’s creation. We simply need to look at Hollywood or magazine covers to see this deception.
- God calls us to be good stewards and we pervert that truth by hoarding wealth on Earth.
- God calls us to work hard. So we set out to live an example at work only to come home and find a neglected family.
Segments of truth are taken and perverted or simply stacked out of balance so that truth is no longer truth but deception.
What traditions or worldly teachings have perverted truth and caused you to fall off course? Are you consumed with thoughts of your 401k rather than the truth of Jehovah Jira? It is easy to see how we could fall prey to such deception. What a privilege it is that we get to celebrate this Thanksgiving knowing the God of absolute truth. The truth is our savior being fully God and fully man, died to pay our debt to sin and rose from the grave to reign forever. That is the absolute truth we can hold in knowing Christ as our savior.
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