Waking Up, Breaking Out

The Kingdom Light – Episode 1092

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Lies abound. False narratives are all around us. Deception is always used to distract us from the truth. It’s time to get wise to it all, but that means being intentional. We have to care enough to make the effort. It’s not enough to just realize maybe we were lied to about some things. We must overcome our apathy and complacency. We must actively and purposefully seek out truth. Only then can we understand the reasons for all the deceit.

We’re continually hit with a barrage of lies every day. Often times, the deceptions are so miniscule – so tiny in size – that we never even suspect. And with the advent of social media, yeah, it’s extremely prevalent in our daily lives. Let me give you an example…

A few years ago, I saw several posts making the rounds on Facebook which were designed to trick folks into sharing. A picture supposedly of Vietnam Veterans was actually a set photo of actors from a movie. Its caption read, “Why don’t pictures of heroes like this ever get any likes?” The unknowing casual scroller would then like and share it.

Then there was a photo circulating of a dog. The caption said something to the effect of, “I was horribly burned in a fire, but I bet no one will share.” However, the dog in the photo wasn’t burned. It was just a dog with a slice of ham laying on its face. That’s it. But the caption was enough to fool people into thinking what they were seeing was dog severely scarred from facial burns.

As ridiculous as that is, it was a deception. It fooled people. It guilted them into sharing it. And it gave people who shared it a feeling that they’d done some noble and caring thing. You may ask, “Why are you talking about this? How does it even matter?” And the fact that so many of us would simply brush this kind of thing aside as unimportant minutiae is part of the reason it’s still effective.

When the lie is so small, we don’t see much reason to point it out to others. We think it’s such a small thing – who cares? Right? But the pervasiveness of those tiny deceptions can have lasting effects. When lies aren’t exposed, they continue to circulate and deceive people. Ignoring it is like ignoring a small weed in your flower garden. It’s gonna grow bigger, multiply, and choke the life out of everything around it.

These deceptions have a diabolical purpose. They are used as distractions from the truth. Even the tiniest lie can serve to distract people from something evil going on right in front of them. Now today, with artifical intelligence being what it is, it’s easier than ever to deceive folks online. That means even more effective distractions.

I saw this one just the other day. Here’s what looks like an elderly woman holding a sign that says:

First of all, there are very few WW2 vets still alive anymore, let alone WW1 vets. But if this were an actual 97 year old woman, she’d have been born in 1927. World War 1 ran from 1914 to 1918. Yep, it’s AI fakery. Why does it matter? Again, all deceptions are distractions. And social media is a cesspool of these distractions that occupy our minds and numb us to the reality happening around us. It really is like a drug. We’re addicted to it, and it keeps us happily oblivious to truth.

This is why it’s so important to recognize and expose these everyday efforts to keep us doped up on comfortable lies. They feed our complacency, making us too lazy to care about the real truth. We remain docile, asleep to what the evil forces and corrupt bureaucrats are doing. We lose our rights and we never even notice. We sit idly by while our tax dollars either line the pockets of those bureaucrats or get spent on evil practices like abortion. We’re too distracted to notice and too numb to care.

The only way to break free from this nonstop cycle of delusion is to wake up and learn to recognize it. We have to realize the importance of taking seriously every deception, no matter how small or insignificant it may seem. Understand that it is ultimately satan – the deceiver – who benefits from our being distracted and lulled into complacency. And once we have broken out of that false belief system, we must help others escape it as well.

Now let me say that, yes, there are much larger deceptions going on that need to be exposed. The propaganda spread by the corrupt legacy media, the indoctrination happening in public schools and universities, and the lies we’ve been programmed to believe over the course of our entire lives – all these need to be revealed by the light of truth. But if we can’t bother with pointing out the smaller things, we’ll never convince anyone of the bigger ones.

We have to show the world these patterns of deception first. And we have to spend time in prayer. Ask God to bless our efforts. Ask Him to open people’s eyes and hearts to truth. Our words will only go so far. It is the Holy Spirit that acts on hearts and minds, freeing people to think for themselves instead of blindly believing everything they hear or every headline they read.

This waking up and breaking out won’t happen overnight, but it will happen. It IS happening right now. But only when people earnestly seek the truth do they find it. And it is the genuine seeking of truth that leads us to God. Lounging in the comfort of lies keeps us blissfully unaware, and that will lead us to a tragic end. Seek truth, speak truth, and make a lasting difference. That is the everyday call for we who live and walk in the Kingdom Light.

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