Turning Things AroundSample

Nobody likes a trickster. Nobody likes a conniver. Nobody likes somebody who is running a game on them, but we’ve all been affected by tricksters, or maybe we’ve played the trickster in the past.    

The thing to remember is that it’s hard to run a game on God. He knows where we’re coming from. He knows why we’re doing what we’re doing, because He is the reader of personal motives. He not only hears what we say, He knows why we said it. 

When you are willing to be honest with God, you will find out that God responds to that honesty. You put the tricks behind you and you come clean with God in prayer, in communication with Him, you’ll find out that God can use you, because now you’re being real. 

Let me put it another way: God doesn’t deal well with fake. He doesn’t deal well with jewelry that appears to be the real thing but in fact, is either gold-plated or cut glass. He knows the real deal and He knows the real you. Honesty with God is the root of being used by God in spite of the tricks you have played in the past. 

We live in a world where it seems like you have to “play the game” to survive or get ahead. That may be how the world works, but that’s not how greatness is in the kingdom of God. In fact, Jesus told His disciples that they couldn’t roll like that with Him if they wanted to be used by Him for good. 

So, don’t be like Jacob, who thought he needed to deceive his brother and father to get God’s blessing. You can’t deceive God. It can come back on you like a boomerang, and you’ll wind up being deceived by the devil, who is out to trick you as you and I try to trick others. Come clean with God, so that He can take you to where He wants you to be.