Being deceived is so destructive to one\u2019s self-esteem and ability to trust.\u00a0 The greatest problem is while you\u2019re being deceived your perception is telling you all is okay, and everything is good.\u00a0 The path leaves us unaware of its destination.\u00a0 All road signs are removed that would give us hints to the pending doom.\u00a0 The deceiver has made persuasive arguments.\u00a0\u00a0 The deceiver gives you short term happiness and pleasure hoping to draw you away from the ways of God.\u00a0 God\u2019s ways may not give us everything we want now, as far as pleasures for our flesh, but God\u2019s ways will sustain us along the way and bring us joy at the end.<\/p>\n
The other destructive element to being deceived is our failure which causes us not to trust any advice and to be fearful of all paths of life.\u00a0 We then create an excuse oriented life.\u00a0 We do have a real excuse, we have been deceived!\u00a0 Wrong is still wrong no matter the manner we took to arrive there.\u00a0 However this causes us to struggle to ask God for forgiveness so our journey can return to the path of God\u2019s wisdom.\u00a0 We do not seek forgiveness and we second guest people\u2019s motives and desires to help.<\/p>\n
You can be freed and grow in Christ!\u00a0 You are not the only one who has been deceived by the great deceiver.\u00a0 God lovingly calls us back and He will forgive us.\u00a0 The path is calling\u2026will you return?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}