It is amazing how our minds can be persuaded to believe. Take the news for example, every news outlet could run a bold face lie, completely manufactured and as long as it sounds plausible, most people will believe it as truth. They will go to work talking about it. Debate will rise over the subject and eventually fanatics will defend it to the bitter end. They will die defending a complete untruth. How many of us are lied to daily by leaders, industry, individuals, and people we trust, yet we buy into their lies hook, line and sinker.
The enemies of God, which are enemies of truth, go throughout our land and try to mold our minds into something that is close to the truth but not quite the truth. It's a mixture of the two that throws us off and when lies come flooding in, they are always mixed with truth. If you were to take a sip of something rancid or nasty, you'd spit it out but add sugar to it and you'd drink the whole thing no questions asked. There's a bit of sugar in every lie. It helps us believe it and defend it to the end.
"Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes truth" is a quote from a Nazi, Joseph Goebbels. Which in WW2 the Nazi convinced an entire country to kill another race of humans known as the Jews. Their lies, made truth, deceived many and would come to the death of an estimated total of 70-85 million people worldwide. Jews, military and citizens all came to their demise from the lies the German leaders told. Portraying themselves as victims and rallying their nation under one flag of patriotism, they went to war with Europe and eventually the world. To the bitter end, the Nazi propaganda machine cranked out lies even as the truth filtered into the country through outside means. All told, the lies of a few fanatical German leaders, led to the destruction of cities and lives.
Todays the war machine is still going on in our minds. Facts mixed with lies and then lies backed up by other lies fly in our faces daily. As we move closer to Artificial Intelligent systems controlling our everyday lives, can we tell what is real anymore. The deep fake videos, the art AI does, the voice manipulation AI can do all play into a world where we won't be able to tell who is who or if what they are saying is true. With current technology AI can make the president of the United States say anything and do anything and then put it on TV. Leaders can now be fully generated, image and voice, to say anything. Someone could die and they could portray them for years after their death with the AI technology we now have. Fake videos, if seen enough times, could become truths as the Nazi's did over 80 years ago.
This epidemic of lies comes from the father of lies himself, Lucifer. He is the master deceiver and always will be. The first propagandist, he convinced Eve that no harm would befall her if she partook of the forbidden fruit. Today, the web of lies continues. So how do we filter out the lies and only get the truth. Relationship with the one true Father, the Father of truth and love is the only way.
The gateway of the mind is the key to it all. If the mind is set, then the heart can follow. If the mind is deceived the heart cannot follow and as we all know the Father is after our heart. The mind says whether it believes in something. We call that faith. If the mind says Jesus died, rose, and lives in me if I believe then it is so. But if there's doubt going on in the mind then everything grinds to a halt. The soldier that came to have Jesus heal his servant came in faith that He could do it without being there. His faith was greater than the Jews as they needed to see miracles to have proof. Yet, here is a non-Jew that has more faith by knowing without a shadow of a doubt that He could heal his servant. So, the mind is the gateway to faith and without faith we cannot have what we need.
It takes faith to activate God into moving for us. In faith we receive forgiveness. In faith we believe He has washed us white as snow. In faith we receive the Holy Spirit. In faith we believe we walk in the Spirit. It takes faith which is activated by the mind. The heart is changed by God as we believe He can do so. So, it is very important we do not find ourselves caught up in lies.
We cannot live up to our full potential by living in lies. We cannot be who God has made us to be living in lies. It takes a pure truth to move in the right direction. Any log jam upstream causes issues downstream.
How do we avoid the lies? Go to the source. Go to God for all your understanding. Build a relationship up with Him so you know His will for your life. Sounds simple but it requires faith, sacrifice and time. Seek and you will find, knock and He will answer. Hunger and you will be fed, thirst and you shall be quenched.
To God be the Glory.
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