STOP LYING!
Put off falsehood and speak truthfully...
we are all members of one body.
Ephesians 4.25
If I lie to you, I am lying to myself. If I lie to you, I lie about myself. If I lie to you and to myself, I am lying to God, too.
If I lie, I am not being truthful to you; I am not being truthful about myself; I am not being truthful in the presence of God.
Because we are "members of one body," whatever we do effects each other.
When we lie, deceive, mislead, manipulate, withhold or hide all or part of information, avoid topics and issues, we cut ourselves off from one another. We create and engage in suspicious, doubtful, apprehensive, anxious--even malicious--imaginations and fears regarding one another.
When we are not honest and truthful with one another and God, we will try to live independently of one another and God in the areas we are hiding and lying about.
To whatever degree we are not completely honest, there is a secret area of our heart and life that is reserved and restricted from others and from God. These areas are always cancerous, eating away at our integrity and credibility. Others will always sense that something "is not quite right," and that we are not being fully honest about something. God will seem distant and threatening to us. We will feel alone and lonely, rejected, misunderstood, cheated, and mistreated.
When we lie to one another, we dig our own grave, create our own misery. destroy our own lives and happiness.
The results of lying are deadly.
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