Nov 4/5 - Job 13:9

 

Can you deceive God, as

one person deceives another?

Job 13:9

 

I don’t like that Spirit of Joy has finally entered the Twentieth Century. (We just put up security cameras.)

 

But I do like that Halloween didn’t bring any pranks to our property. There was no traffic in or around our building with people seeking to cause mischief.

 

Why? Could it have been the cameras? Did they deter this?

 

Well, here’s what I commented to the staff: “In our worldview class, The Truth Project, we’ve learned that too many of us (including too many “good Christians”) are practical atheists. We say we believe in an omniscient, omnipresent God, but we live most days as if he’s not seeing our actions and not knowing our thoughts.

 

“Maybe just the threat of a security camera,” I mused, “got pranksters to behave as if someone really was watching.”

 

And hence the thought: Do we act like God is watching? Do we respond like God is there and cares? Do we think – as today’s verse suggests – that we can “deceive God, as one person deceives another”? Who are we fooling? We say that we believe in a transcendent, omniscient, omnipresent God, but do we act like it?

 

In Christ’s Love,

a guy who gets stopped

short occasionally when

he remembers Galatians 6:7 –

“Do not be deceived;

God cannot be mocked”