“Gentle words bring life and health; a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit.” Proverbs 15:4
There is not one that can deceive more than him nor is their one as deceitful as he is. He is the very source from where a deceitful tongue comes from. And he does not work alone, as we all know. He has many helpers.
Who is he-Satan, who are his helpers-those who are without Christ and can even be those who claim to know Christ, yet live as the world does. Their lifestyles, speech and even teaching contradict the word of God.
There is no greater passage of Scripture that describes Satan and his helpers better than 2 Corinthians 11:13-15. “These people are false apostles. They have fooled you by disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. But I am not surprised! Even Satan can disguise himself as an angel of light. So it is no wonder his servants can also do it by pretending to be godly ministers. In the end they will get every bit of punishment their wicked deeds deserve.”
And there is not a greater passage then the one in Genesis that revels just how deceitful his tongue really is.
Genesis 3:1-6, “Really? He asked the woman. Did God really say you must not eat any of the fruit in the garden? Of course we may eat it, the woman told him. It’s only the fruit from the tree at the center of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God says we must not eat it or even touch it, or we will die. You won’t die! The serpent hissed. God knows that your eyes will be opened when you eat it. You will become just like God knowing everything, both good and evil” and of course she bought and bit into it!
Why is this important, because we are living in the days where more and more deceivers and deceitfulness is taking root and becoming the norm. So much that it is corrupting our speech.
Brethren we have to understand that a deceitful tongue comes from Satan himself. It makes me sick to think I ever helped him. Doesn’t you?
There are so many who are so deceived they don’t even know they have such a deceitful tongue. But if we would just wake up, get honest, and realize that if we speak anything other than gentleness, love, and truth, than we are speaking with a deceitful tongue. If we lie, use trickery, fraud, or claim with our mouths that we are followers of Christ yet act under the influence of our flesh, then we need to do some major soul searching, Word reading and praying.
The only way to avoid a deceitful tongue is by saturating ourselves in the word of God and by speaking the truth in love.
Prayer: Lord protect us against the deceiver and all of his deceitfulness. Keep our lips from ever speaking lies, trickery or fraud. Amen
