TRUTH

March 9, 2014

An African proverb says, “If lies keep going on and on for twenty years, one day someday, truth will catch up with it.” Prov 12:19b says, “but a lying tongue is but for a moment.”  It is a taboo for some people to tell the truth. They are walking lies. However, I have discovered that telling the truth is sweet because you don’t have to remember anything whereas you must remember the lie you told so the truth doesn't come out.

In the book of Acts 5, in verses 1-2, Bible says, “But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, and kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.” Just so that some people do not lack, there was a free will offering going on where people who had land sold it and brought the money to the Apostle’s to distribute to the needy.

However, one family (husband and wife for that matter), sold a possession and kept back a portion and lied that was the total amount they sold the possession. As a result of that lie, both the man and the wife died publicly.  Why didn’t they just say, “We sold it for $1000 but we can freely give $500.” Also, if nor for mercy, Abraham would have lost Sarah to Pharaoh and Abimelech on two different occasions for lying that Sarah was his sister.

Someone said it takes one thousand lies to keep one lie going. You don’t need all that trouble. In Prov 6, Bible says six things doth the Lord hate and second on that of the list is a lying tongue. As Christ-like, let’s always tell the truth the same way Jesus would no matter what. Eph 4:25 says, “Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.” A lying tongue is a dying soul. Beware.

Enjoy God afresh today!

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