Ezekiel 13:20-23

Ezekiel 13:20-23
English Standard Version (ESV)

  So there's a bunch of magicians, and they're somehow ensnaring the people through trickery and falsehood, bringing despair into their lives through false hopes.  You can picture disappointed lives, led astray through promises that didn't turn out, through hopes that once rose to the clouds but didn't fulfill their lofty goals. 
  Surely, we've all fell prisoner to false hopes.  We've believed in someone or something, thinking that it would be the cure what ails us, only to be let down, disappointed, entangled in the falling shreds of a promise that once carried us into the skies.
  God delivers us from such entanglement.  How do we know that he is God?  Because he delivers us.  That's who God is -- a deliverer.  His identity is confirmed by his actions.  This is the cause of Jesus' response to John's disciples.  They came and asked if he was the Messiah, and he told them to look around -- the evidence of his identity was in his actions. 
  So God delivers us from our sin, and in his actions , he reveals his identity as our true hope and deliverer.