Leasing

Psalm 5:6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

I read many versions of this verse and nearly all use the word lies in place of leasing. Lies make perfect sense, so why does this archaic language of the King James use leasing. So I went to the Merriam-Webster and looked up leasing. Wow, it says “the act of lying”.

A whole industry has been built around “the act of lying”. You would think that they should have changed the name. Perhaps they didn’t because they know people are unaware of the definition. It matters not what the meaning or intent is if people are looking beyond the lie to their desires.

They buy into the lie. Isn’t that the basic model of sin, buying into the lie? You are not living, you are leasing. Your life is a lie.

John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: (by lying) I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. (By truth)

John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Glory is the essence of truth, to see and know God as He is without the veil of deception. That veil of deception is the flesh, the desire without knowing the truth in a matter.

Ephesians 2:13-15 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;

Pleading

Isaiah 59:4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

I am so tired of lies, agendas, op eds, and fact checking that it is once again time to take a media fast. I was doing fine on my last one for some time. What broke my fast back then? The Boston Marathon bombing.

Breaking news came and interrupted my peace by placing people I know and care about in the close proximity to that disaster. No one I knew was hurt, but they were just down the street at the time in Fenway Park.

Tire as we might of scandals, lies, innuendoes, opinions and hyperbole there will always be something to draw you back into the fray. With me it is the risk of the innocent. While there is little I can do for them but pray, I can do one more thing.

I do not have to lend my voice to the problem.

If I am pleading for truth, then I can do nothing better than to quote truth. My only source of truth is He who is truth. I can quote the bible but in doing so, if I explain the relevant experience in my life, I have traded it for opinion. What happens then for me is personal and may not contain all the truth those scriptures hold to touch your life.

Joshua 8:31 As Moses the servant of the Lord commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings.

May the Word of the Lord speak to you personally without interference of opinion.

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