“Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who act faithfully are his delight.” Proverbs 12:22
January 15, 2024
A generation of children were mesmerized by the Disney movie, Pinocchio. Lies didn’t really produce a longer nose, but many learned a lesson, lies make for bad consequences. The Bible makes sure we all understand the serious warnings about telling untruths. Denying the truth is an intolerable injustice. God hates a lying tongue (Prov. 6:17). God-honoring living is clear: our tongues should not be used for deception and lying. Satan is a liar and the father of lies (Jn. 8:44). We live in a world of lies. Untruths come at us from every direction. Movies lie to us: “If God exists, He lives in the suburbs of the universe and is irrelevant.” Our culture is infected with millions of reality-denying self-serving, utopian-promising, systemic deceptions. One big lie that is making the rounds is that the human race is divided by oppressors and the oppressed, not that we are all personally sinners before a holy God. The wise see through the fakery of lies and are determined to look at life through the lens of God’s revealed truth, the Bible. Make today a renewed commitment to love God with your tongue and put away a deceitful mouth, and devious lips (Prov. 4:4). Are there some to whom you have told lies and need to ask their forgiveness? Never forget that our world descended into its miseries when our first parents bought the lie of “has God said?” What would our faces look like if our noses grew longer for every lie we told?
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“The worst lie is to lie to myself. The worst deceit is to deceive myself.”