Volume 5: What Makes Some Christians So Delusional?

Day 109 Devotional

WHAT MAKES SOME CHRISTIANS SO DELUSIONAL?

Convinced But Corrupted

Sometimes the most dangerous people in a room are deeply convinced but deeply deceived.

“There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Proverbs 14:12).

One of the most terrifying judgments in Scripture is not fire falling from heaven. It is when God stops contending with a person’s addiction to lies.

“God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie” (2 Thessalonians 2:11).

• Not weak delusion.
• Not simple confusion.
• Strong delusion.

When Truth Is No Longer Loved

Why would God do this?

The answer is found in the verse before it, “Because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved” (2 Thessalonians 2:10).

That changes everything.

God is not randomly corrupting innocent minds. These were people who continuously rejected truth while embracing lies that protected what they refused to surrender. They did not merely reject information. They rejected the love of truth itself.

Sometimes judgment is not God striking a person dead. Sometimes judgment is God allowing a person to become completely consumed by the lies they consistently choose over truth.

Gossip Grows Best In Darkness

Like puppets, one wounded voice speaks. Another offended person repeats it. Another emotionally unstable person adds to it. Soon an entire group believes something they never verified through Scripture, wisdom, context, prayer, or confrontation.

That is how deception spreads in darkness.

Jesus said, “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light…” (John 3:19).

Notice the wording carefully. Jesus did not say men accidentally wandered into darkness. He said they loved it.

When Conviction Starts Feeling Offensive

Delusion is not merely mental instability. It does not bow to therapy, psychology, or counseling alone. At its deepest level, it is spiritual corruption that occurs when people repeatedly choose darkness over truth. They reject love and embrace lies. They resist correction, despise accountability, protect everything they idolize, and slowly become prisoners of the very deception they once entertained.

Eventually, truth no longer sounds loving to them. It sounds offensive. Conviction feels uncomfortable. Light feels intrusive. And anyone confronting the lie becomes the enemy because darkness always fights to preserve itself.

If you really want to examine yourself, read that again and ask yourself: Have I become more committed to protecting my feelings than pursuing truth? Do I surround myself with people who sharpen me or people who simply validate me?

Because one of the scariest realities in Scripture is that a person can become so committed to a lie that truth itself begins to feel hateful.

Idols Hidden In The Heart

Even Ezekiel said, “And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet…” (Ezekiel 14:9).

In context, God was confronting prophets who already established idols in their hearts. Biblically, an idol is anything exalted above obedience to God. Sometimes people idolize attention. Sometimes they idolize relationships. Sometimes they idolize control over the narrative.

So God gave them over to the deception they desired. That is judgment.

Emotion Is Not Discernment

And this kind of judgment happens in real time.

I have watched people believe complete fabrications simply because the lie matched their emotions, even when the lie contradicted Scripture, wisdom, and observable truth. No prayer. No discernment. No investigation. Just assumption, offense, pride, and emotional addiction to drama.

And if they lied on Jesus, they will lie on you.

Delusional thinking thrives wherever truth is no longer loved. Sadly, this especially happens among Christians who drift away from intimacy with God while still maintaining the appearance of spirituality.

Double-Minded And Spiritually Unstable

Some believers are not bound because Satan is powerful. They are bound because they refuse correction. Pride protects their delusion. Ego feeds it. Gossip waters it. Bitterness sustains it.

Truth threatens delusion because truth demands accountability.

And delusional people often despise accountability because they are double-minded. One day they sound spiritual and loving. The next day they are controlled by offense, assumptions, emotions, or instability. Scripture says, “For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways” (James 1:7–8).

Freedom Only Comes To Honest Hearts

Jesus said, “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32). Notice carefully: truth only frees the people willing to know it.

• Not everybody wants freedom.
• Some people want validation.
• Some want revenge.
• Some want attention.
• Some want to protect an image.
• Some want their feelings affirmed more than their hearts transformed.

That is why discernment matters.

• Every voice speaking confidently is not speaking correctly.
• Every emotional story is not factual.
• Every accusation is not truth.
• And every Christian is not spiritually mature.

So pray for a heart that loves truth even when truth wounds your ego.

Because one of the scariest judgments God can give a person is allowing them to permanently believe the lie that keeps them comfortable inside their own deception.

A deceived person rarely believes they are deceived. That is why humility is essential in the life of every believer.