God loves truth, and He is completely honest with us. He tells us that His way is best; He tells us how hard it will be; and He tells us to count the cost (Deuteronomy 32:4; Isaiah 55:9-10; Matthew 7:13-14; Luke 14:26-33).

Satan and his world don’t feel any obligation to truth in advertising. They will say whatever they have to in order to lure us in. The only way to make us think that something is better or easier or quicker than God’s way is to lie about it. Buy now, pay later.

This has been Satan’s approach from the very beginning. He did not tell Eve what the full cost of taking the forbidden fruit would be. Any time someone offers you something that is presented as being better or easier than God’s way—you can be sure that it is a lie.

The perfect law of liberty only restricts the things that lead to suffering and death. There is no greater freedom than that (James 1:22-25; Galatians 5:13). God wants us to enjoy freedom from the tragic consequences of sin (Galatians 6:7-8).

The world offers freedom from the strictures of God’s law—but without mentioning that this type of liberty is short-lived and comes with a crushing burden of consequences (2 Peter 2:18-19). We must have our senses exercised to discern good and evil—we have to learn to trust God and to see through the lies.