We live in a world where many people see good as evil and evil as good, they celebrate what's evil and condemn what's good. No wonder many are the afflictions of the righteous.
A cobweb of deception has been spun over this world, many things and people cannot be taken at face value.
Even the media can be biased and most times mass media itself is a tool of deception, it is used to distort the truth and present the view certain powers that be would have you believe.
Whatever you hear long enough you may begin to believe and you may eventually accept it as truth.
Persuasion is a powerful thing.
Persuasion rides on the wave of consistency and persistence, our minds are the target.
Error is often persistently presented, the intention is to break through your mental filter so as to make you accept or believe an outright lie or distorted fact.
Manipulative people can be very persuasive, charming men can often be deceitful., and controlling individuals are often emotionally intelligent.
It is a fact that controlling and manipulative women can use and do anything to get their way. To curry favor, they will shed tears if they have to, deceptive tears.
The times we are in calls for serious discernment!
Discernment is a God given gift that helps us perceive what's in the hearts of men and help us know the truth in difficult situations.
Some 2984 years ago, Solomon the wise king of Israel was presented with a tricky situation where he had to play the role of an impartial judge by making a ruling that was to determine who a baby would be given to between two women who claimed to be the child's mother.
The two women before Solomon lay claim to the baby, both gave birth to sons at the same time period and they lived in the same building. While asleep one night, one of the women slept on her baby mistakenly and her baby died, realizing her baby was dead she put her dead baby beside the other woman who was asleep, she took the living child of the sleeping woman and lay the child beside her as if the boy is hers. An evil and wicked exchange!
Presented with this difficult scenario, king Solomon had a short moment of time to determine which woman is the child's real mother.
The king was wise enough to know the biological mother of the child would have genuine feelings for her son, so the king decided to put both women to the test without informing them.
He instructed one of his guards to take out his sword and cut the baby boy into two equal parts so that each woman can leave with half a child.
The biological mother of the child pleaded for the life of her child and asked that the child be given to the other woman, the culprit.
The second woman, the culprit, demanded that the child be killed. What a wicked and miserable woman!
Miserable people love company.
King Solomon discerned the real mum of the child.
He commanded that the baby boy be given to his real mother and not be killed.
God's wisdom at work in king Solomon freed the king from error in judgement and a difficult situation. Wisdom freed the baby boy from an unfortunate existence of living with a false mother and wicked woman, wisdom also freed the biological mother of the baby boy to live in peace and raise her son.
Wisdom frees us up, wisdom brings freedom.
Wisdom brings discernment and on this occasion discernment saved the day!
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