Commandment #9…”You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”

 Commandment #9…”You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”

In other words don’t lie to them, slander them, or lie about them.   As I watch TV during this election season I see Satan with a huge grin, as political parties are spending millions of dollars to break this Commandment.  Politicians today don’t have to lie face to face on the political stump, where they may be held accountable.  Now they can lie to the camera and lie to millions without facing them. 

As Christians we have to seek wisdom before we vote.  We cannot allow Satan to influence us through lies and deception just because we hear words that align with our thinking. We better start by acknowledging that “ His thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the Lord.”  Isaiah 55: 8.

Walking With God

“He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”

‭‭Micah‬ ‭6‬:‭8‬ ‭ESV‬‬

As many of my friends know. I take morning walks frequently as part of my devotional time and at the same time I pick up trash along the roadways. I am very intentional to remind myself that my walk is a walk with God first and trash gathering is secondary. I really want the time to be an act of worship. Frequently, as I’m walking, I will notice something along the tree line that I think may be a piece of trash and when I walk over to it, I find that it’s just a leaf or a tree branch. But then as I look beyond or around that area, I do find trash that I had not noticed before.  It always makes me smile because I believe that is what God is doing in my life daily. I may not know the trash and the junk in my life that is not apparent to me, but God will see it and clean it up as I walk with him.  If we acknowledge that God is walking with us throughout the day, every day, we may find ourselves in situations and places where we can do acts of kindness and service as acts of worship. 

We are born into condemnation.

 ““He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.”

‭‭John‬ ‭3‬:‭18‬-‭20‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

The World in which we are all born into will try to deceive us every moment of every day. Satan quoted God in his deception of Adam and Eve and he quoted God in the temptation attempts of Jesus.  The only defense we have against the attacks and misleading attempts of Satan is belief in Jesus.  When we cry out to Jesus to forgive us and to deliver us from the lies of this world, we will use God’s word and the grace and protection of the Holy Spirit to lead us in righteousness.  We can no longer accept and ignore the sinful nature that we are born into. 

Sadly, too many people do not want to face the truth that evil rules their hearts and they not only live with the consequences of sinful living, but they embrace it.  They intentionally reject God and His Son, Jesus, and in doing so they reject the salvation and eternal life in Heaven. It breaks God’s heart to be rejected, but He will not drag unbelievers into heaven against their wills. 

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

‭‭John‬ ‭3‬:‭16‬ ‭NKJV‬‬