A cuckoo

Today I saw a nest with a mother bird returning to her babies in the nest but I sensed something was wrong. I heard the word, "cuckoo" and am reminded of the deceptive ways of the mother cuckoo who lays an egg in another bird's nest to hatch and be raised by another mother bird. There are a lot of deceptive tactics involved in this subterfuge, which further makes me ponder on how comfortable and convinced we can be by someone who enters our life or even our heart, without even considering that they are not being authentic. Jesus warns of "false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves" (Matthew 7:15). We are told by Apostle Paul that "...every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world" (1 John 4:2-3). Note that Paul is referring to spirits and not to people, for "We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against...spiritual hosts of wickedness...(Ephesians 6:12). Without the gift of discernment any of us can be deceived by a "cuckoo", a person who is being deceived themselves. We need to know the real Christ, in order to recognise the antichrist who wants to destroy us.