Little Birdie

So what about every man being a liar? In the context of the scripture, Paul argues against the fact that if the Jews are God’s chosen people, yet some do not believe in Jesus, it nullifies God. As if our unbelief or unfaithfulness somehow trumps God’s character. How presumptuous for us, the created, to make the claim that what we believe in our limited, mortal view somehow affects what is true about the Creator.

And speaking about lying, God takes that pretty seriously. Just read I John. In 2 Corinthians 6:9-10, slanderers are counted as part of the wicked that will not inherit the kingdom of God. But it goes on to say that those washed in the blood of Jesus, although they were slanderers, are now forgiven–so it all comes back to that promise.

That’s great news for me, because I struggle with lying all the time. It’s so easy for me to lie. That’s dangerous because it encourages a need in me to always present a good “face” to the world. But it goes beyond that because sometimes I just lie to make things more interesting.

I haven’t told one of those lies in a long time, just for the record. But the desire is always there. As I continue to grow in the Lord though, not only can I not get away with lying as often, many times I am simply compelled to either not lie, or come clean immediately, because it literally keeps me up nights. Lots of times I actively combat the need to lie by purposely making a fool out of myself by being blatantly honest, whether it’s to my boss or on my blog for the whole world to see…like right now, for example.

So yay, I’m seeing progress in my life

So in the usual fashion of traveling around my elbow to get to my pinky toe, I take encouragement from “Let God be true and every man a liar.” Because when all men fail, when all men lie, when I myself cannot be trusted, God can. He is faithful to His character, He keeps His promises, He never changes. Amen.

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