You Can Fool Just About Everybody

We are all master deceivers.

It may be little things like eating chocolate when you are on a diet.

It might be big things like having an affair with your boss.

It's easy to deceive others.

If no one asks, I don't have to tell.

And no one is going to ask anyway. We would much rather live in our secluded worlds. We don't want to step out of our comfort zones. We don't want anyone to know what we are like, so we don't go beyond talking about the weather.

And it's easy to avoid the issues, even if someone does ask.

Talk about other problems. Talk about the acceptable sins.

Keep up appearances. Build a wall.

But make it look good.

That's how we roll.

For decades.

Job asks his counselors a question: "Will it be well with you when He searches you out? Or can you deceive Him as one deceives a man?" (Job 13:9).

The answer to both questions is "no."

No, it won't be well with me, when God searches me out (Psalm 139:23-24).

No, I can't deceive God like I can deceive others.

God is omniscient and omnipresent. There is nothing that can be hidden from Him.

He knows my thoughts.

He knows what I'm doing when no one else is around.

Even in the dark in a distant motel room.

I can't fool God. And neither can you.