Proverbs 30:9. You can define delusions as ignoring truth or unknowingly living out a lie. Many people do this when following a purpose in their lives that is contrary to God. From a Christian perspective, the real truth is that we are here for God’s purpose and that He will provide for our needs. By us getting caught up in the cares of this world, both the rich and the poor among us replace God’s truth with a lie. The rich get deluded into thinking that they can provide for themselves, and they soon forget God. The poor will delude themselves into taking matters into their own hands and steal to provide for themselves forgetting God is their provider. All of this is vanity and lies that delude many of us in our day-to-day activities (Proverbs 30:8-9, “Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.”).

BIBLE SCRIPTURE: Proverbs 30:9, "Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain."

Jeremiah 9:6. You can define delusions from a Christian perspective as getting so caught up in lies that we tell ourselves that we do not even realize we are rejecting God by believing those lies. We will start with little lies such as thinking that God is the God of love, but conveniently forgetting that he is also the God of righteousness. We will tell little, white lies to our neighbor to boost our prestige. We will develop habits of lying where we will make promises to others and ourselves that we know in our heart we will not keep. Just think of New Year’s resolutions. How many people fulfill those promises to themselves? If we had previously had a relationship with God and we slip where we tell lies to ourselves, God will separate Himself from our lies and from us. In our delusion we will not realize that we are separated from God. Through all these lies and delusions, we develop a lifestyle that rejects God. (Jeremiah 9:5-6, “And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.”).

JEREMIAH 9 BIBLE SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 9:6, "Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD."

Hosea 10:13. You can define delusions from a Christian perspective in that we trust ourselves more than our Creator and His Word, the Bible. How can we say we know better than God what we should do in our lives and not be delusional?

There is more than ample evidence that there is a God that created this universe. If there is a God that created us, then it follows that He has a purpose for our lives. It is only common sense that if someone, in this case God, creates something (or someone), then they had a purpose in creating the thing that they created. It is clear that God, our creator, has a purpose for His creation, His creature. We only choose to continue in our own purposes because of our sin nature to be disobedient to God. We pursue the fulfillment of our flesh over the fulfillment of our spirit man.

Many of us are in rebellion with God and do not know it. Following our own way and not trusting God is the greatest delusion that has befallen man. Because of this delusion, we reap the terrible consequences of sin and remain separated from God, (Hosea 10:13, “Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men”).

HOSEA 10 BIBLE SCRIPTURE: Hosea 10:13, “Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.”

Thessalonians 2:10. Another aspect when we define delusions is that someone that is deluded shows no love of truth. People may say they love God, but what are their actions. Our human nature desires to fulfill our flesh. Our fleshly desires corrupt our view of truth. Truth becomes relative versus something we seek. Our truth becomes, “if it feels good, do it.” We say, “everyone else believes it or does it, so it must be the true way.” A lover of truth seeks truth. If God sees that you do not love the truth, he will let you go your own way. In fact He will encourage you in your delusions if he sees that there is no love of truth in your heart. He would rather that you go to the full extent of your foolishness than just be double minded in your view of truth (2 The 2: 10-12, “And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness"). Beware, you are separated from God when you seek the pleasure of unrighteousness versus seeking God’s truth. To define delusions is not enough in our lives. We must identify the delusions that our in our lives, and learn to love God's truth. Your delusions will be your death sentence versus truth being your salvation.

BIBLE SCRIPTURE: 2 Thessalonians 2:10, "And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved."