Being Deceived By The Enemy And Not Living By The Spirit

Whether we admit it or not we so very often are deceived by the enemy and sometimes we are blindly taken by the enemy, because we have allowed our view of God to become clouded. We begin to loose sight of what God is leading us in and start striving in order to prove we are right where God would have us be in our lives.

 

During all the confusion we slowly spiral onto the path that was not meant for us, but even so God will use it for His glory to draw us back to Him and cause us to see that our eyes have not been fixed on Him but only that we are only living for self. Plus, we may find that we take matters into our own hands in an area we need the greatest breakthrough in.

 

It may very well be that we have just put our focus on the things here in the physical—things we can see, readily touch, and relate to—instead of keeping our sight set on God and doing that which the Holy Spirit is prompting us in and calling us to.

 

We have been deceived.

 

When we habitually give in to stress and drivenness, or look to our own efforts instead of the Holy Spirit, or live in fear and disbelief, we have completely lost our sight of who God is and what He is leading us in. We have instead, come to live day to day just trying to survive, instead of living day to day thriving in God's best for us.

  

God calls us to live by faith and not by sight, but so many times those words make it into our minds never to penetrate the heart. To live by faith means fully relying on the Holy Spirit that dwells within us and seeking to live by His leading. It doesn't mean for us to pick and choose when we will consult with the Holy Spirit, but it means we live by faith knowing that the Holy Spirit will guide us in what God has for us—the best.

 

The enemy wants us to believe that we cannot trust God and that He really does not want what is best for us, that we need to take matters into our own hands and then and only then will things transpire as we hope for.

 

But what is hope?

 

Hope is different in biblical context—a constant expectation and not just a doubtful chance.

 

Hoping in God is a constant expectation that He is enough and that He will fulfill His promises. We begin to become insensitive to the Holy Spirit when we take our eyes off God and lose hope in who He is and what He has for us. We begin to seek joy, satisfaction, and pleasure in something other than God; when we are supposed to seek every joy, satisfaction, and pleasure in God.

 

Which leads to another thought and that is we are not to put our trust in man—meaning ourselves or others—and that as believers we must trust the Holy Spirit that indwells us and not the smoke screens the enemy throws out at us in order to prevent us from keeping our sight on God. The enemy wants nothing more than to deceive us and cause us to stop walking by faith and the leading of the Holy Spirit who indwells us.