"Our Deceptions" -2

"An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength." (Psalms 33:17) So, I was thinking about yesterday's post and wondered if anyone out there understood what I was saying, because I hardly understood it myself. When it comes to our deceptions, we tend to put our faith in things that really don't get us all the way to glory; they might bring us glory for a season, but seasons come and go so quickly. When it comes to love; well, let's just say that love is not our greatest strength; as a matter of fact, it is the thing we understand least of all, especially when we are pressed against! Okay, this is far more harder than I thought; let me try another angle, because this has my head spinning. What the Lord is showing me with this verse, is that the horse is compared to our love; our love is a vain thing for safety; safety meaning salvation, deliverance, or victory. The reason that our love is 'a vain thing' is because it will betray us; it is a fraud, a falsehood, and will constantly disappoint us: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (Jeremiah 17:9) We do have the ability to love, that's not the issue; it's the fact that our ability does not match God's love, nor the level of love required for us to have victory in that area of our hearts; it just does not quite go the distance! And seeing that this Psalm is about "Praising God", then this verse must follow that form of expression; which it does, especially if we understand how God has placed His love within our hearts! Don't tell me you did not know that, because He did, and He does! His love has no bounds; our love does. Just a the horse has great strength, that strength is not enough to deliver anyone, and to depend upon that strength is a deception of our heart, because our own heart will let us down. But God; God has placed His love within us, and it is by His love that we will have victory, not our own! Does that mean that our love can become an idol? You better believe that it can! How do I know the difference between His love and mine? Good question; because an idol is anything that is placed between you and God; so how far does your love go, and if it stops short of God's, it's not His... "No man hath see God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us. Hereby know we that we dwell in Him, and He in us, because He hath given us of His Spirit. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4:12-17)