Human Response 636: Deceit Trusts in Vanity

Job 15:31, 35

Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity, for vanity shall be his recompense….They conceive mischief and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

Deceit and lies come from Satan to keep us away from God. He deceives with a thousand lies to make us believe vanities. Vanity is emptiness, futility, transience, a fleeting vapor that does not satisfy. “All is vanity,” says Ecclesiastes. All the things of this world will pass away. Why do we trust in them?

2 Corinthians 4:18: “ We look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” Unseen things are the things of God, of the Spirit, of heaven, of Truth, of Life. That life is substantive, real, and eternal. Jesus has brought us into that kingdom, where there is truth and not deceit, light and not darkness, life and not death, pleasantness and not pain, eternity and not transience.

God has given us truth, reality, substance, life, and eternity in His Son, who is the Word of God. Faith sees it. Physical eyes see the lies. We have the Word of God, which does not deceive and bring vanity. We are blessed, for we have not seen and yet have believed.