Regaina Thompson
Help, LORD, for the
godly man ceases! For the faithful disappear from among the sons of
men.
They speak idly
everyone with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they
speak.
May the LORD cut off
all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things,
Who have said,
"With our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own; Who is lord
over us?"
The Words of the LORD
are pure words, Like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven
times.
You shall keep them, O
LORD, you shall preserve them from this generation forever. (Psalm
12: 1-4,6-7)
Who in this world can I trust?
So many things in the Psalms could have been written today. Lying,
flattering lips, and a double heart are the norm for many people
today. They worship the God of self.
I was just reading some statistics
that said most teens today believe there is no "moral absolute
truth."
Such young people are guided by:
Such an attitude is motivated by pride
and puts self above God. A lot of public schools are teaching the
idea of situational ethics. The Bible does not teach that our values change
with the situation.
Proverbs 6:19 says that lying is one
of the things God hates. Lying is an abomination to Him!
In Rev 21:8 we are told that ALL liars will be in the lake of fire.
This verse says nothing about the situation. When my father read
this verse, he always emphasized, "ALL liars".
There is no such thing as a white lie.
We must live in this world and be a
light in it, but we must be very careful who we trust.
Total honesty is a foreign
concept in this world.
Living by total honesty is a
way to show Christ to a dark world.