Don’t be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest. Galatians 6:7

So many of us live a lie and we fool ourselves about our reality. We believe we can fool God too. 

I recently saw a meme someone posted and I don’t remember the details, but the essence of it said, if I post that I am away in a different country and you see me down the road, you too are in that country.  Many live their lives like this, not facing reality and it becomes even worse for persons who have never had to own up to their own short comings.  They live a lie.

Some have dreams and aspirations, but never work towards it. They keep thinking and hoping that by some miracle or stretch of the imagination, what they want will be achieved, but they do not actively do anything to achieve this hope or realization.

Paul speaks to group of gentile Christians who the Jewish Christians are trying to tell them to be circumcised if they are believers. Paul is trying to convince them that we come to God by grace and through Jesus Christ and not through the laws that the Jews must keep.  My reflection does not speak to this, but looks at the verse as an isolated passage. God is not mocked. Whatever you sow you will reap. 

We can’t continue to say one thing and do another yet expect that life will be different. And so many of us live a spiritual lie.  We are partial to the gospel. We believe some things but not everything, we have learned the talk, but we do not walk the walk. We say we are believers but we really are not we are wolves in sheep’s clothing. And the proverb says we can fool some of the people sometimes, but we cant fool all the people all the time.  And God cannot ever be fooled at all, because God knows all things and sees all things.  Psalm 139 verse 3  says God knows the smallest of details about us like when we stand or sit. God knows our thinking.  We cannot hide from God. Talk to Jonah, he will tell you. When we don’t follow in God’s way or do what God leads us to do, we fool ourselves and not God. Not only that others too can see through our mask. 

We reap what we sow! 1 John tells us if we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.  When we try to be something we are not, we are sinning. We are living falsely and no good can come of it.  We would have sown bad expecting good, and the converse is also true. We would think we are doing good, but in the end we really were doing wrong. The results turned out badly.

Friends we are called to be true to ourselves. To not live a lie but to live in the reality of the moment.  We don’t have to be afraid.  God is not expecting a show. Maybe others are, but not God. God knows who we are and God wants us to be that person, God expects us to be that person. If we recognize our faults, with the help of God we can correct them. We can be better. We do not have to live a lie. God accepts us as we are. If we accept ourselves others who appreciate honesty and integrity who are seeking to be true to themselves will accept us for our honesty and integrity. God accepts us as we are.  Do not be fooled God is not mocked.  God knows when we are being deceitful.  Let us seek to be real, to be true to who we are and who God has called us to be. To not have airs or try to be somebody who we are not. People are not fooled and God is not either.

We can be better holding on to the  strength of God which pilots us and the power of God which preserves us. May the wisdom of God instruct us. May the hand of God protect us. May the way of God direct us. May the shield of God defend us. May the host of God guard us against the snares of evil and the temptations of the world. With God all is well. All will be well. All manner of things will be well