🤔Believe The Lie👽

🌃The picture looked great, but the finished portrait was awful. 🫣

Have you ever been lied to? I’m sure you don’t have to think real hard to remember a time, a day, month and year. Maybe not that detailed but you remember. Sometimes when someone lies to you it makes you a better person. 

It was a Friday night and my wife and I went just to look and see what was out there as we needed a car. Just look mind you. That’s not what happened at all. The salesman told me one lie after another. I was young and had seen my dad make deals with a handshake. I didn’t realize that those days were gone and now a handshake meant nothing, it's what the contract said. Money had taken the place of being honest and character. That evening I learned, things had changed and not for the best. That night I learned, read the paper work after hearing promising words for they may not be the same as a handshake once was.

God spoke Words, life giving words. The serpent spoke promising words but it was all lies. On that day as he talked with Eve he the devil our enemy became the father of lies. 

John 8:44 (KJV) 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.

It was a good try but not a successful one. Forty days have went by and the Bible tell us that Jesus had, had nothing to eat and that He was hungry; I guess He was. Great time for the lair to appear. Oh this should be good. How will Jesus handle the lair? Will He fail the test as Eve did? Let’s see.

Luke 4:2 (KJV) Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

The devil struck low and tempted Jesus at the weakest point, He was hungry. The devil our enemy does the same to you and I. Oh you say you don’t have any weak points. Oh yes you do and the enemy knows them and will attack you there, rest assured.  

Hebrews 12:1 (KJV) Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Did you read those word “so easily beset us” that means especially that sin that distracts us. Those wondering eyes that leads the mind in the wrong direction. That wondering walk, that wondering talk. I’m sure you get the picture. What we fail to see is the full portrait of the finished work of our sin. The grass that looked so green on the other side will soon be just as brown as the grass on this side. Had Eve known the day of her encounter with the devil what she knew the day after she would have never bought into his lying. Yes it was a lie she never forgot and neither have we. The drug that you thought had now finally gotten you over your shyness now has you entrapped and ruined your relationships. The drink that made you the life of the party has now entrapped you also. The woman or man you sold your marriage off for has turned out to be an awful decision that now has entrapped you. The money you thought had finally brought you real joy and has brought you way more sorrow than you ever thought. Oh you saw the picture but not the finished portrait. Jesus overcame the devil’s temptation. How by knowing what His Heavenly Father said. It’s all recorded in the book of Luke chapter 4 verses 1-13. The reason we lose is we know not what our Heavenly Father has said. So what does God say about alcohol? Lying? Fooling around? About marriage? About wanting what you can’t have? About how we should react toward Him? About how a husband is to treat his wife? Parents are to treat their children? How children are to treat their parents? Do you know? Being unlearned is a choice one makes. 

If only I had known how I would feel today  after deciding to follow what I knew was  wrong yesterday, I assure you I would have done differently. You think? 

Matthew 24:43 (KJV) But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

Oh my, my wife just asked me what time it was, I said 8:20 and all of sudden I just realized I had lied. She would have never known. She didn’t run to a clock to see if I was right. I knew it was 8:23 so quickly corrected myself and told her the truth. She didn’t jump up and say “why did you lie to me.” Oh that’s no big deal you might say. I know, but small lies lead to big lies. Just a small example of how quickly wrong takes over.