This could be a post on how good the book "Lies Women Believe" by Nancy Leigh DeMoss is, because I think it's a fabulous book! But for now I want to share about the lies women tell.
It could be that we inherited it from our gender, we tend to be a bit more manipulative and deceitful. Men don't seem to have a problem telling it like it is. But I have found that women seem to find it a bit easier to lie. It could be because we're more tender hearted and find it more difficult to be truthful and honest for fear of hurting someone. But regardless of the reason, it's wrong, and it's a sin against God. A sin that God declares He hates! John 8:44 says, "You are of (your) father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie he speaks from his own (resources), for he is a liar and the father of it.
God has also said in Numbers 32:23 "But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out." So it may be easier temporarily, and the consequences may not be immediate, but be assured, in the long run it will not go well with you. God knows, and loves us way too much to allow you to do something so harmful and destructive.
It's hurtful, and it's hard to build back trust once you've been lied to. Sometimes it's never built back. Usually people who lie once will lie again and it becomes habit. I was personally convicted of my own testimony in this area when our children were young. We were determined and committed to never put our children in a position to have to question our trustworthiness. We didn't want them to ever hear us say to someone on the phone that the other wasn't here, when they were. And honesty shouldn't be just for our audience, because we're always an audience of One, God, whether it's reporting taxes, or returning too much change, the list could go on forever. We don't ever want our kids to see hypocrisy in us so that they could justify it in their own lives. Right and wrong HAS to be determined by what God says, not by what we justify.
Matthew 5:37 Let what you say be simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything more than this comes from evil.
James 5:12 But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your "yes" be yes and your "no" be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.
Isaiah 5:20-21 "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!
By justifying lying, or any 'little' thing, it stirs up pride and causes us to think that we can make the rules. Instead of God's written word as our guidelines. But if we love Him we will keep His commandments! Be strong in the Lord, be bold if you have to, but always, always be honest!
Exd. 20:6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments
Deu 5:10 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments
Deu 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
Deu 11:1 "You shall therefore love the LORD your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.
Jos 22:5 Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul."
Neh 1:5 And I said, "O LORD God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments
Dan 9:4 I prayed to the LORD my God and made confession, saying, "O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments
Jhn 14:15 "If you love me, you will keep my commandments
Jhn 15:10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love
1Jo 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
