Today's Daily Lesson comes from 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 verses 9 through 12:
The coming of the lawless one is apparent in the working of Satan, who uses all power, signs, lying wonders, 10and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion, leading them to believe what is false, 12so that all who have not believed the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness will be condemned.
What a scripture for the times in which we are living.
There is indeed a profound refusal to love the truth and so be saved as a nation.
But God sends a powerful delusion? How could that be?
Augustine said something that is helpful here. Reflecting on the Scripture that says God hardened Pharaoh's heart, Augustine noted that the sun hardens clay, yet it melts wax. The same sun, but acting on very different properties.
The truth is a delusion to some, and delusion the truth; all determined by the hardness of the heart.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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