Unmasking Truth

In the early eighties, we learned about a procedure called back-masking: hidden messages within recorded music. If you gently made select vinyl records spinning on the turntable turn the opposite direction, you heard messages different from the song playing; disturbing messages. When you see or hear an advertisement for a product, does it sometimes entice you to eat something even though you aren’t hungry? Or make you want an item, thinking you need it when you don’t? Do you know someone who can carefully word their conversations, leading people to believe something is true when it isn’t? As believers, what we listen to, look at, and read is crucial to our spiritual health. 

We may not always understand its truths when reading the Bible, but there are no tricky hidden messages: “For the word of the Lord is right, and all His works are done in truth” (Psalm 33:4). God doesn’t entice us with anything harmful to our Christian walk but invites us to open His Word and “taste and see”—partake of His goodness and experience His faithfulness (Psalm 34:8). No trickery, no subliminal messages or “smooth talk,” just truth.