Greetings sisters!
I trust you are striving on in the faith! We all have different lives with different 'enemies' to fight against spiritually...those things that would pull us from the faith and our first love for Him. We are told it is a fight so let us persevere in pressing on to keep our focus on Him. We want to be found watching, and faithful servants when He comes, don't we.
The one and only true faith is built upon truth and there is no room for any falsehood or lie. I was just pondering on truth and how important it is to God and to us who are of this faith.
Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. 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.
Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.
John 18:36-38
It can be astounding how common lies are in the world and how people use them for their own advantage. But it is not so among His people who speak the truth.
These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.Zechariah 8:16-17
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.Ephesians 4:24-25
And it also includes speaking the truth about others too. We have to be really careful of false accusations. This is contrary to the faith and not pleasing to God of course as He hates it and it is an abomination to Him. And may it be to us as well.
These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.Proverbs 6:16-19
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;Titus 2:3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.Isaiah 59:3-4
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
Jeremiah 9:3-5
Let us plead for truth and be valiant for it. Those scriptures remind me how there is no new thing in the heart of man which has been evil from the beginning.
Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
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.
And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
John 8:43-47
Let us hear His words and embrace truth and abhor all falsehoods. There are many false doctrines practiced in what is called Christianity today which makes it in some ways another false religion. Well people have made it that but Jesus is the truth and we must seek it out and reject all that is contrary to truth. We know those who lie do not enter the gates of heaven and it is a serious thing. Let us keep holding fast to the faith once delivered unto the saints.
Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Hebrews 13:20-21
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