Trick or Treat!

Tricks can be fun when played on others. Most people at the receiving end also enjoy the fun.
Tricks involve secrets, hidden things and actions and lies.
It is not fun when we fall victim to tricks of people who play us out on money, purchases, precious time, health or relationships.

There are serious tricks the enemy of our souls plays on us that affect our course of  life on earth and our eternal destiny. He is called 'The father of lies.' His goal is to deceive us by making us believe a lie. He desires to keep us from knowing the truth because the truth makes us free. Through trickery he keeps us from Jesus because Jesus is the Truth. He keeps us walking in darkness to make us stumble and fall. He hates the light because it exposes the evil works of darkness. Jesus Christ lived on the earth as 'The Light Of The World.' Now, those who believe in Jesus reflect His light in this world of darkness.

A careful observation would unravel most tricks. Diligent study of the word of God through the revelation of God's Holy Spirit would expose the dirty tricks of the devil.

Let us beware of the tricks of the trickster and overcome them with God's wisdom!

Ephesians 4:17-24 (NKJV)
This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,
having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;
who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
But you have not so learned Christ,
if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus:
that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.


Ephesians 5:8-14 (NKJV)
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),
finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.
But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.
Therefore He says: "Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light."