LIES (3)

Lies are oh so significant an issue in the lives of men, than we could ever imagine, especially in the lives of God's people, which should not be, because anyone who chooses to use such, actually does so at his own detriment, for when a person lies, he not only consciously or inadvertently ushers the father of lies into the situation he told a lie about but also gives him inroads into other aspects of his life as well. 

There's nothing more deleterious to the child of God than fooling around with things that are exclusively in the devils domain, as such would serve as cogent grounds for one to be legally  robbed by the ancient enemy of our souls. 

Lies nowadays form a major part of the discourse of myriads of people all over the world because most believe there's just no way they can avoid them.

People of God can I'll-afford to be faithless about living lives free from lies and therefore be so casual with telling fibs as a means of deflecting another's attention from the truth or any of the other reasons anyone would feel warrants it's use, as what is ungodly is exactly what it is, and as such should not be used by God's people, period. 

The truth of God's word, spoken by faith serves to deflect the flaming arrows of temptations, doubt and deceit the devil may assault us with from time to time but playing with lies creates gaps in the armour of God we are clothed in, for the devils arrows to easily penetrate and harm us. 

Unfortunately, lies to most people are not just here to stay but are a valid part of human interaction.

Christians must however individually take a stance against the mindset that they are unavoidable, as a first step in redeeming themselves from the devils hold over situations in their lives through such intangible slip-ups, because there is no seemingly insignificant lie that does not have the potential to give the devil a foothold into situations in our lives and serve as an inroad for the ancient enemy of our souls to steal from us, destroy things in our lives and even terminate our very existence, if afforded the opportunity.

The seriousness of the issue of controlling our tongues can be understood from James 3, verses 6 - 8, to the extent that it was stated that," no human being can tame the tongue..." a glimpse of hope was however given in verse 3 that,
"When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal."  

It is indeed an important analogy we must consider in that it gives us an idea of the type of solution we need to adopt in order to reign in our tongues and therefore force ourselves to desist from telling lies or better still, to stop talking too much, in that we cannot by our own intuition or physical strength bridle our tongues.

Finally, praying to God for grace and imbibing the word of God that the resident Holy Spirit can work with, to serve as the bits needed to rein in our tongues, is the only solution that exists for loose lips and lies. So let's take full advantage of the provisions God has made and stop telling lies.

Shalom.