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Lies

Psalm 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

We can only expose a lie with truth. I begin with the truth. God has made a way for us to know truth.

John 18:37b To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

We hear the truth because we have a close personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Look closely to Jesus’ words here. Satan does not abide in truth. We abide in Christ and we abide in truth. The light of truth is the only way to expose a lie.

Now for the hard part. As I pointed out yesterday, our perceptions are not truth. We should not rely upon our perceptions which are clouded by raw emotions.

We encounter people daily who do not have a personal relationship with Christ. They do not know the truth. What they speak is not a lie but rather their perception. One must know the truth to speak a lie. There are many in the world who believe the lies of Satan to their own detriment. Some lies are only distractions to keep unbelievers in the chains of sin.

Some who believe the lies are the enemies of the Cross and these are not harmless and mean to do evil things in the name of the liar.

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John 10:10a The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:

I was not raised with the understanding that I had an enemy. I did not understand that many of my misconceptions of life were feeding right into Satan’s hatred of me. He hates us all, even those who serve him.

In yesterday’s blog I barely touched the surface on how parents, surroundings and events build a perception of reality which may be flawed, tainted, or even a lie. It is nearly impossible to cover all the possibilities here, even in a year. So I would like to take just one example of perception from my life and tell you how it affected me. It had to do with fly fishing.

Allow me to say that there is more to fly fishing than learning how to cast. It was the last day of a long weekend alone with my parents on Indian Pond. My mother was paddling the raft to the other end of the pond while I made the last few casts of the trip. I had caught nothing during those three day. As we passsed near the shore I had a strike and it was a rather large Indian Pond trout.

My mother stopped paddling and began watching the fight. Suddenly she yelled at me, “He is going to jump!” Sure enough this big thick, beautiful trout rose up out of the water, flipped around and threw the hook. My mother’s heart sank, disappointment was seen all over her face. Now, being a parent myself, I can understand she was disappointed for me. As a child my perception was that she was disappointed in me.

Where was the instruction that should have come with some training in how to handle the fly rod as a fish is about to jump? Was I expected to know what to do without instruction? None of that ever happened and all I got out of the experience at the time was feeling like a failure and a disappointment.

Instruction in righteousness, right action, right relationship, was not my experience.