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“Lying lips are abomination to the Lord” (Proverbs 12:22).
Perhaps some of you have not noticed this yet, but in the world today, lying is very common. When I was growing up it was still regarded as a serious sin, and anyone caught lying was not respected at all. All that has changed today, and it is looked upon as all right to tell lies, especially to get out of trouble.
A few years ago I took my snowblower in to have it serviced. The man in charge promised to deliver it back on a Monday. I waited all day, and when he never came, I called him on the phone. He said that he had promised to deliver it on Tuesday, not Monday. When I reminded him of what he had said, and told him I had written it down, he finally admitted that he had lied to me, and said, “I guess that was not very professional of me.”
Let us be careful not to adopt the attitude of this world toward telling lies, for as we see in our verse, it is an abomination to the Lord. As Christians, we should be recognized as those who always tell the truth.
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