Wednesday 15 Sep 2010

Wednesday Reading: Psalm 89:34-35
 
Key Verse: Psalm 89:35
35  Once I have sworn by My holiness that I will not lie to David.

Devotion:
If there is one thing that man will always break it is promises. The more society moves away from God the more we accept lies and broken promises as the normal and the more we find the concept of keeping promises alien. What better way for the evil one to break down our belief in God than to break down the foundation that Christ stands for! God is holy and God will not change and will not lie.

I could stop there and hope that you realise just how important a statement that is but I fear that it would be lost in the lies that swim round in our minds all the time. It may not be our lies but the people around us that are affecting us with their lies. It may be that we try to tell the truth and find it hard when people lie to us. It may be that we actually are hurt by people who do lie to us. So imagine how God must feel when we lie to Him always. Every time we bend the truth or tell a lie we are doing so to God’s people because we are all His people. When we lie it is like we are asking God to ignore our sin.

God only has to say it once. He said that He would not lie to David once. That is all it should take. We should not have to say that we swear that we will not tell a lie and that we swear on whatever... We should simply be telling the truth, up front and out in the open. That is all that God requires of us. Once we start to bury a lie we have to dig a bigger hole to have stuff to cover that lie with. Once we dig the hole we have to dig another to have something to cover that hole with. It is much like a rubbish tip. We may be able to cover the rubbish with a lot of soil and plant grass or other things on top of it but the fact still remains that there is a whole lot of rubbish there and if we treat that area as anything else than a rubbish tip we are asking for trouble... Our lives have to be based on the truth so that people will be able to trust us. If we live our lives like the people around us then how are we going to stand out from the crowd and show others that we are Christians? We need to stand up for Christ and show that we are willing to live up to His ways and His name.

Points to Ponder:
Do you lie?
 
How often do you lie to God?