"This is Your Wake-Up Call" -It's impossible to know you're deceived by someone or something until the truth is revealed to you. Likewise, as Christians, we can think things to be a certain way about ourselves and be deceived in our hearts, and not know that we're deceived. Have you ever spoken to someone who believed something that wasn't true, but you couldn't convince them that they were wrong? Deception can cause humans to live in an alternate reality from the truth. This is why God has to give us wake-up calls to bring us into reality. If He doesn't, deception will bring us to humiliation and disgrace, as Christians.