Lying doesn't turn life around

Often, some people think you can play a smart one by lying. But, can you help a liar? Every sort of sexual sin, cheating, breaking the law, bribery and others, you name it, I’ve seen it all. There is an established set of procedures in place to deal with those who get in trouble. Very often they are able to help the young people make amends and set their lives on a new path.

You can’t help a liar. You can help anyone struggling with any sort of difficulty or sin as long as they tell the truth. I hope you know and will agree with me that you can't can’t help a liar because you can’t trust anything he says. The situation is compounded by the fact that when most of us get caught in any vice act, we confess as little as possible. That’s not an ordinary person's problem; that’s a human problem. And that leads to the second key point. One sign of true repentance is when “someone tell you something you didn’t already know.” If you knew A + B + C, but the person then adds D + E + F, you know their repentance is deeper than just, “I’m sorry I got caught or I'm sorry I went wrong.” True repentance always involves coming clean or right, and coming right means owning up to the whole pattern of wrongdoing, not just to the thing you happened to get caught doing or found yourself at fault. God and nature desires “truth in the inward parts." It is often very hard for us to come to this point of honesty with God and with others. For most of us, it is a continual battle to be transparent in all our dealings, especially when we have sinned because it’s so easy to cover up.

In a discussion with couple of friends, few comments stayed with me. First, one has learned that lying has almost become a non-issue today. Everyone lies, and they lie all the time. It’s almost as if it’s not a sin to lie anymore. Perhaps it is a sign of postmodern relativism that we have come to accept that lying isn’t wrong.

Secondly, perhaps it is just a fulfillment of the Bible; Romans 3:13, “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” We live a culture of victimization, a culture that rewards us for blaming others. That’s an easy way out, isn’t it? But it's a dreadful path to becoming a good and great person in future. It’s easy and so stupid when we’ve done wrong things and we say, “everyone does it."

Although we live in a society that encourages us to make excuses, most of us don’t need any encouragement for that. One excuse that keeps many people from being good servants of God is worldliness and greed. Too many are consumed with this old world of ours and with chasing the almighty dollar so that they cannot make time to serve Almighty God. They are so busy with their jobs, trying to make the money to pay their bills, or trying to find a way to have nicer things that God never enters into the equation. Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” You cannot have the best of both—the world and God. One sure way to success and great is being truthful to yourself.

Remain blessed as you endeavour to be in the right path by abstaining from too much lies.