Healer

Luke 20:45-47

45 Then, with the crowds listening, he turned to his disciples and said, 46 “Beware of these teachers of religious law! For they like to parade around in flowing robes and love to receive respectful greetings as they walk in the marketplaces. And how they love the seats of honor in the synagogues and the head table at banquets. 47 Yet they shamelessly cheat widows out of their property and then pretend to be pious by making long prayers in public. Because of this, they will be severely punished.”

Today we have the freedom to believe in pretty much whatever we want to. We can believe in Christianity, Catholicism, Mormonism, Atheism, and so on. Because we have that freedom we are always being pressured into conforming into some religion or no beliefs at all.

I remember in High School I would walk home and on the way home there would be someone on the corner handing out mini bibles that contained just the new testament or just psalms, there would be people passing out flyers for the catholic church across the street, Mormons would go door to door wanting to talk about God. Sometimes it was all a bit to much that I would take the long way home just so I wouldn’t have to deal with all that pressure.

God calls us to believe in only one God, and that is him. There are religions out there that exist for the sole reason to cheat you out of your money, your time, and your life. But every once in awhile we find people in the Christian faith that try to deceive us. One example is the guy that wrote the worship song Healer. He wrote an amazing song and told everyone that his inspiration was that he had a fatal condition, but in reality he didn’t have a health problem, He lied to everyone about his inspiration and was secretly involved with pornography.

Working with High School I see how the students sometimes will just accept what you say because you are a leader. They expect us to know the right facts and all the correct details. That is why it is so important that we constantly check ourselves and the things that come out of our mouths.

It is so easy for us to just accept what people say especially if it sounds good. Like a good message, a long prayer, or an amazing worship song. So how do we know if we are being deceived? There is no way that we could possibly tell that we are being deceived. Some people are just excellent liars and deceivers. We have to pray and trust that God is with us through the good and the bad.

God, I pray that we not just be accepting of what people that are in a leadership position tell us. It is so easy these days to be deceived and misled. I pray that you just keep watch over myself when I am connecting with the students and that I don’t tell them something that isn’t of you and your love God. Keep being awesome God. In the father, spirit, and the son

Amen