Topic: “LYING” – Daily Devotional By Dag Heward-Mills Ministry 10 June 2020
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READ: Proverbs 16:27-30
“The lip of truth shall be established forever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment” – Proverbs 12:19
Lying and deception are negative traits that cause division and discord among brethren. Such characteristics will never lead to increase.
Deception will cause you to lose everything, to divide everything, to fragment everything and to break up everything. Leaders who lie to different sections of their people to please them end up losing everything.
Lying and deception are negative traits of people who imagine evil things. “Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil…” (Proverbs 12:20). A person who continually imagines evil is not going to become prosperous. The evil that he imagines will be his own downfall. Notice what the Bible says. “Though they intended evil against you and devised a plot they will not succeed …” (Psalm 21:11, NASB).
The people in the world thrive on lying and deception, each trying to outwit the other. Lying and deception will not advance your cause. They are negative traits that do not lead to abundance.
Lying and deception are negative traits that cause all your successes to be short-lived. Because deception is a false foundation what is built on it is short-lived and often comes crumbling down after a while. A marriage built on deception will come crumbling down after a short while. A ministry built on deception will come crumbling down after a short while. This is why deception is such a negative and destructive trait.