Be careful

Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; - Deuteronomy 11.16

The events of the wilderness wanderings took place somewhere around 3500 years ago. It was of course a very different world. This was also a very different culture to our modern western culture.

And yet God’s people still needed to be warned about being deceived by the world.

So God says be careful. Like the old children’s song says:

Oh be careful little eyes what you see

Oh be careful little ears what you hear

Oh be careful little feet where you go

Oh be careful little lips what you say

Oh be careful little hands what you do

We can’t afford to let down our guard because the Great Deceiver leads a deceptive world system in an attempt to deceive all of us. Deception is all around. That isn’t going to stop. We can put up blocks and avoid places and install controls on our televisions and computers and such and that is all well and good.

But to really avoid deception we need to get our hearts sorted out because all of our actions come from our hearts. If our hearts are not right we are inviting deception. Our hearts control our eyes and ears and feet and lips and hands so if we careful of our hearts that we will not be deceived.

‘Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it are all the issues of life.’

Be careful. Don't be fooled by this old world.