Have you ever told a little white lie and then have it snowball into a continuing fabrication that can last the rest of your life?
It’s hard once you have told a lie to backtrack from it. It may be possible if you do so soon and just say you were mistaken. If you wait too long, the loss of face that could ensue by telling the truth would be very difficult for most individuals to deal with. You would be telling everyone that you were a bald-faced liar.
When you lie and people find out about it, you lose the trust of those individuals. Frankly, no one likes a liar and, certainly, everything a proven liar says thereafter becomes suspect.
There is a case that has been covered extensively in the popular media where a celebrity was given a pass by the prosecution and had their record sealed. That should have been the end of it but, instead, the individual and lawyers went on media afterwards to give their version of the case at hand.
Their statement flies in the face of everything that is known about it. The problem is, by continuing to talk about it, the individual has lost their position of wanting to keep the record and information sealed from the general public. A judge has just ruled that on that basis, the records should be unsealed and made public.
Who knows what the record will show? It may completely exonerate the celebrity or, it may show that person to be a liar.
If the former, the individual will be vindicated. If the latter, the individual will be shown to be a liar. Will there be repercussions? We may soon find out.
In life, when you tell a lie or a fib and continue to do so, what you are really doing is sinning. You might say, but my lie is only a little white one! I fudged my grade average on my resume. I claimed minority status based on a ridiculously small amount of minority blood or, simply none at all. Who is getting hurt by this? Why would God even care about something that doesn’t hurt anyone at all.
Well, it hurts you. Once you start lying, it becomes easier and easier to continue to lie. Your lies can grow until it is difficult for even you to know what is true and what is not true.
With God, all things we do to break his rules are equal in terms of sin. Telling the truth was so important, God included it in the Ten Commandments. There is no little white lie with God. False witness (or lying) is a sin. A sin is a sin is a sin. All sins are punishable by eternal separation from God.
God is holy, just and true. He cannot have sin in his presence. It just simply cannot be allowed. The original sin by Adam, in the Garden of Eden, broke mankind’s relationship with God. If you think that somehow, you have never sinned and you are somehow better than Adam was, think again. By that very thought, you are lying and, therefore, sinning.
If we are all broken and sinners and doomed to eternal separation from God and to spend eternity in Hell, what in the world can we do to fix this?
There is nothing you, by your own efforts, can say or do that will remedy and repair your relationship with God. There are no good works, there are no amount of repetitious prayers, there is simply nothing we can do on our own that will even allow us to enter any sort of relationship with God. We are doomed to be under bondage to Satan, the author of lies, death and destruction.
However, the good news is that there is a way to fix this. Jesus, the son of God, came to earth to live a sinless life, to give us lessons on how we are to live, to give up his life as a sacrifice to cover all of mankind’s sins, and finally, to rise again after death, showing that God is more powerful than Satan.
By his own power as the Son of God, Jesus resurrected himself. He conquered sin and death by his freely given death on the cross and his rise from death. He did so for each of us. It is his free gift to each of us.
All you have to do is accept his gift, which is a pardon for all of your sins. Acknowledge him as God and ask him to direct your life through the Holy Spirit. Ask him to help you live the type of life that he wanted and told us to do.
He knows we will fail from time to time. Repent and, once again, begin to live for God. All Christians have doubts about God from time to time. It is Satan whispering in your ear and filling your mind with his lies. When that happens, ask God to push those thoughts away and ask him to help you with your doubts and disbelief.
Lies are sins and are no better or worse than any other sin in God’s eyes. Sins are where your separation from God stems from. If you want to live for God, confess those sins and ask Jesus to help you.
Exodus 20:1-17
And God spoke all these words: “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
“You shall have no other gods before me.
“You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand [generations] of those who love me and keep my commandments.
“You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
“Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates.
For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
“Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
“You shall not murder.
“You shall not commit adultery.
“You shall not steal.
“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”