Believing the Enemy’s Lies
We’ve been lied to all our lives.
Society makes us believe we never have enough. We want a nicer car, the newest cell phone, the most extravagant wedding dress, the biggest house, and the best of everything. Society makes us believe that what we already have is dated and has lost appeal, so we constantly replace perfectly good things—even people!
Society makes us envy and admire everyone around us and makes us dissatisfied with ourselves. We put on so much makeup we might as well be wearing masks; we get plastic surgery and lip fillers; we permanently disfigure our bodies with tattoos, elaborate piercings, and even gender surgery.
Society makes us obsess over people we cannot be with, people we cannot be, things we cannot have, and lifestyles we cannot live.
Society makes us believe we were born into the wrong bodies, families, and circumstances.
Society makes some of us believe we have everything, so what do we need God for? Some have more money than they could ever spend in their lifetimes and have all that money can buy; they have popularity and fame and men and women falling at their feet—they have everything. But the truth is that they still don’t have enough, and they never will because the more we have, the more we want. We are not whole, and we don’t know why. We are not the same people in public as behind closed doors. People want to be us, but we say, “Be careful what you wish for.”
Society makes us believe that even if we’re not popular, rich, and famous, and we live humbly with little possessions, a loving family, and a decent job, we have everything we need. But we are slaves to our phones and the internet, to music and television, to our jobs and even our hobbies. We are slaves to our morning coffee rituals, our daily run or walk in the park; we are slaves to gossip and the news; we are slaves to food, drugs, alcohol, and even shameful addictions to porn and erotica, or sex in general. We are slaves to anger and unforgiveness; we are slaves to the opinions and expectations of others, what others have that we do not, how other people look that we cannot, and their talents, skills, and popularity.
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