How can you discern when everything appears to be the same? Remember we have an adversary that tries to imitate everything that God does, he tries to  confuse us. So how do we discern? We discern by truth, God’s truth 1John4:2 every spirit that confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God. God is not a man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he should repent, hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? (Numbers 23:19) God is truthful and righteous. Isaiah 11:5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. John14:6 Jesus said, ” I am the way, the truth and the life.” John 18:37 Jesus said, he came into the world that he should bear witness unto the truth. Everyone that is of the truth, hear his voice.

We can all agree that following the teachings of the Bible is the key to understanding the will of God. But interpretation is the key; if it become confusing to us, well we all know where it leads, it leads to discord in faith. I believe that this is why we have so many different religions stemming from the same Bible, that preaches the same God and only begotten son, the crucified Jesus. God gave us the key to open the doors to wisdom, knowledge and understanding of who He is and His love and salvation for us. The key is the Word, and according to John 1:1-14 In the beginning was the Word and Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 14:12 Jesus said, “verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believe on me, the works that I do shall he do also and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto my father. So Jesus was saying that we, who believe in him, will have the abilities to do what he has don, the same miracle,s even greater and if we recall the miracles that Jesus has done, turning water to wine, bringing the dead back to life, healing the sick, feeding thousands with five loaves and two fish and performing exorcisms. Jesus was a priest, prophet and king. There was no limitation to his abilities. I believe he was the best psychologist especially with how he dealt with the scribes and the Pharisees when they tried to discredit him. And is it not amazing when we think of it, what we as mankind have been capable of doing ever since Jesus came and resurrected? Even today in the twenty first century from our mind and creativity, spirituality, medical, technology and so much more than we could ever believe we are capable of doing, like the knowledge to travel to out of space. Jesus said, he prayed to the father that he would send another comforter, that will abide with us for ever. He said he will not leave us comfortless. Jesus also spoke about it being expedient that he go away so that the comfort would come and the spirit of truth will come and guide us into all truth. John16:7,13.

Witchcraft and psychic ability, isn’t that what Jesus was being accused of by the scribes and Pharisees. Jesus did some things that were questionable, his miracles had defied all logic, to the point that he was accused of being belzebub the prince of the devil driving out the devil (Matthew 12:24). The fact that Jesus did miracles and his miracles did not consist of rituals, it was all random acts, I would hope it would be fair to say that rituals began with the law, the time of the ten commandment in the day of Moses. Everything from the rod of Moses and the all the miracles that Moses did to get Israel out of Egypt would be considered some sort of witchcraft and psychic abilities by definition. So as much as we can say that God is the creator of all this, we have to be the discerners of whether it is of God or an illusion of God’s truth by the enemy. Is it not ironic that Moses had the rod and the rod is now considered for witchcraft as a wand. A psychic, (medium) someone who speaks of the future by conjuring up the spirit of the dead. Ezekiel37:1-14 Ezekiel the prophet was told to prophesy to the dry bones to bring them to life that was in the valley. Wouldn’t you consider this conjuring up the dead? Don’t be confused now, because God works in a mysterious way and his wonders to perform.

The trouble that man has with the gift that God gives to us is getting caught up with all the knowledge, wisdom and understanding and forgetting that all these things comes from God and we should not try and play God, but in all things acknowledge Him. Remember for Moses not acknowledging God in the presence of the Israel, he didn’t make it into the promise land (Numbers20:12) This is the balance that we the people need to get to really serve God in spirit and in truth (Mark 12:17) Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s, couldn’t be more clearer. Exodus 20:4,5 I the Lord thy God is a jealous God. God was talking about praising and worshiping graven images or any likeness of anything in heaven, earth, or in the water, he is jealous of. But not the jealous that we as humans have towards one another, the kind in which we want what someone else has, or believe we should’ve been the one to have it not them, but the jealousy of knowing that something is yours but someone else has robbed you of it, or is giving it to someone else. The human term jealous shouldn’t even be used to define what the interpretation of God towards worshipping or praising other things besides him means for jealousy is a flesh emotion and God is a spirit. From the beginning he said, ” I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the house of bondages by all miracle that was preformed, you should have no other Gods before me.” He is saying you were in trouble and I came to save you, acknowledge it is I who saved you and no other God. I am the one and true God, there’s no other, so don’t even look or try and create any other. God is truth, and everything about him, even to serving and worshipping him has to be in truth.

The question is if God is truth, why create or let untruth exist? I believe that untruth doesn’t exist for God, only for us. It goes back to the fact that we should not have eaten from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, we couldn’t handle it, it was too much for us.(Genesis 2:17) Witchcraft, Tarot card, Mediums (psychic) , Astrologers, Crystal healing, candles, Quija boards. God created all this, could the usage of it come from the person or persons and their intent whether good or evil? I believe that everything is created for a reason and a purpose and nothing ever started out as being for evil. For example, take a look at a baby you could never imagine that this innocent perfect bundle of joy could one day be a murderer, drug addict, thief, prostitute, pimp, or whatever that just go wrong along the path of their life. We are responsible for everything that God gives us and we just have to choose the way in which we are willing to use it whether for good or for evil. For example the catholic churches, with the molesting of the children and heaven knows what else that is being hidden, and not just the catholic churches but other churches also with0 their scandals, homosexuality and whatever else, the police that are suppose to uphold the law are breaking the law themselves, teachers instead of teaching  are sleeping with and having affairs with their students,  all manner of misconduct performed by people that are to be there for our well being. Food, medication, alcohol, drugs that could all serve for our wellbeing are being misused and abused by us.

I know that evil does exist and that there is good in the world, and the Bible says all things work together for our good for those who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose,(Romans 8:28) For this reason I believe that true discerning is achieved, when it concerns this matter.