Devious
Our grandson chose the word devious for his school's vocabulary parade! Student were asked to dress in a way that depicted the meaning of their chosen word. What a great idea!
Devious- "cunning, crafty, clever, departing from the correct or acceptable way."
Cunning, crafty nor clever are painting in a very good light in scripture. Remember "the serpent was crafty" and he "cunningly deceived Eve".
Now the definition of clever leaves a little more to be desired fortunately, because my mother in law was always saying to my husband "You are so clever!"
Clever- quick to understand, learn and devise or apply ideas; intelligent.😉
Peter is addressing believers in the faith when he shares his take on clever relating to being "made up".
When we told you about the power and the return of our Lord Jesus Christ, we were not telling clever stories someone had made up. But with our own eyes we saw his true greatness. 2 Peter 1:16
The reality is that the world has always been and will always be filled with cunning, crafty and clever individuals and we must know truth to be able to deliver discernment. We must hold our instructors of every kind...academic, employment and spiritual to the moral standards held in God's Word.
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.Ephesians 4:11-16
The Song (As I was looking for songs related to deception I found them dark, so I chose this one about overcoming!)
"I Will Rise" by Chris Tomlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uTIqu8G-34
