Do Not Be Fooled by an Illusion

My family and I went on a trip that required several hours of driving. On our way home we saw this one little cloud that was in the shape of a pig. A few moments passed and it looked like a car and then it was a crab. This small cloud continued to change into different shapes that we identified.

When the Viking spacecrafts went to Mars in the 1970s there was a picture taken of a mountain that many began to say was a face which was proof of possible life on Mars. One of our latest orbiters photographed this mountain and showed that what had looked like a face was simply shadows on a hillside.

I read about a lady who was looking at the ultrasound of her unborn child and believed that she saw the image of Christ on a cross. She believed that it was a sign of the child being blessed in some way.

So often we see exactly what we want to see. Whether it is a cloud, mountain, or an ultrasound, people look for illusion and shadow more than they do truth. The want to feel something that is not there or find something that they do not have. All the while, they fail to see the truth of God's word.

The lady with the ultrasound could truly have a blessed child if she lets go of illusions and dedicates herself to raising the child in the "discipline and instruction of the Lord" (Ephesians 6:4).

Seek what is real in life. Seek God's truth which is found in the Bible. There is no illusion about salvation in Jesus Christ.