New Age Deception
By Mike Rule

I continue to be amazed at the fear that permeates the church today. We say we are a people of faith, but we generally live by sight. I have been pondering the New Age movement recently. The idea in the New Age movement is to look within to find the spark of the divine that lies within. It goes on from there, but I want to build around this one thought.

In some circles in which I am involved, the New Age movement is ridiculed and belittled. Furthermore, Christians are strongly admonished to NOT look within because it is too easy to get sucked into deception. After all, “The heart is deceitful above all things; who can know it?” This line of thinking says you cannot trust anything that comes from within; you can only trust the Bible, the pastor, the elders, the deacons, the Pope, the priest—the leaders within our denominations. It’s all based in fear and in sight.

We do not realize how close to the truth the New Agers are, and how far from the truth we are! The New Agers are looking in the right place, but there is nothing to find because they are dead to God in the spirit. There is no Jesus within them TO find! Yet, Christians who have Christ in them, their hope of glory, are looking in the wrong place and finding nothing as well. Do we realize the greatest Treasure lies within a believer? But it takes faith to trust that He will keep us and that He is Lord of our spiritual condition.

Satan cackles with glee at our fear. He doesn’t care if the New Agers look within, because they won’t find Jesus. For the believer, satan doesn’t care how good a Christian we become so long as we don’t see Jesus. He’ll let us be as bad as we want, or as good as we want…anything except seeing Christ. That’s all he cares about because if we see Jesus, it is a death sentence to the enemy.

Verse for Reflection

" This is, “…the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the Glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of Glory.”” (Colossians 2:26, 27)