TRUTH

It’s alarming the way we’ve taken the truth for granted, we’r more at home speaking falsities and distorting accurate facts than speaking the truth.

Telling lies has become the norm and even the IN-thing to do; we tend to tell lies in most situations we find ourselves even when it’s not necessary (I’m not justifying ay kind of lie tho’).

We tell lies to cover up mistakes

We tell lies to make friends feel good

We tell lies to save our necks

We tell lies to fool people

We tell lies to make ourselves feel good

We tell lies to get our way

We tell lies for a million reasons and it just goes to prove how fickle our Christian faith really is.

Personally, I believe lying is the easiest sin to commit because it’s so effortless and all you suffer is just an initial pang of guilt (Retribution might come later if you are found out eventually).
As Christians, lies are forbidden because it automatically makes you the son of the devil. John 8:44; God is just & true in all His ways Psalm 33:4.

The act of telling lies is also a key problem in Nigeria as a whole, our leaders are a bunch of unrepentant liars and it’s a major detriment to our progress as a nation because no foundation based on lies shall stand the test of time.

In the US & UK, there has been different scandals involving presidents (Watergate, Clinton’s sex scandal, Blair’s lies about nuclear weapons in Iraq etc)but what stands out is the fact that all these leaders came out to tell the truth and apologize to their citizens even in the face of adversity. That is a strong reason these men are still called GREAT men today and the countries remain world powers, they know the importance of truthfulness and everybody is accountable for a little lie told.

Let’s cultivate the habit of telling the truth at all times despite the consequences because it makes us conscious of what we do and more importantly IT SETS US FREE John 8:32.