Psalms 12:1 Help, Lord; for the godly man ceases; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. 2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. 3 The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things
There are two words that are written side by side in the Spirit of prophecy, which caught our attention as we were preparing the study for today, and because of the number of times they occurred together we had to take notice, for they are written together no less than 685 times. Here they are: Flattered themselves. It seems that the deliberate choice to believe a lie is not something new, but it has occurred throughout the history of our world.
It started out in the garden of Eden, and down through the ages it has morphed into the mindboggling phenomenon we see today, where persons deliberately shutter their eyes to the truth and facts to the point where many are bereft of reason. Some are actually seeing all the red lights flashing danger, and some are complaining, yet the habit of believing errors has become so deep-seated that in some instances, persons almost cannot escape, for after a while, deliberately believing lies can become addictive, just like cocaine or Fentanyl.
Adam and Eve flattered themselves that God’s word would be reversed, and that His great love for them would preclude Him from enforcing the sentence. In the vain hope that the serpent’s words might yet be true, they huddled together in the valley of wishful thinking, until the voice of God triggered the rude awakening to the raw facts in the matter.
Genesis 3: 8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. 17 And unto Adam he said, because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!