January 25, 2019


 How to be Truth Tellers Living in the Land of the Liars

It is an unhappy truth that over the past months we have been witnessing an increase in lying. The infamous Justice Kavanaugh hearings - more like a trial or witch hunt- made it abundantly clear that truth has become a casualty in our Congress and much of our country.

Every day stories are produced in the media that are patently dishonest, disingenuous, devious and duplicitous. In a word, one cannot help but conclude that the authors have been lying. A mistake is one thing, but knowing that the facts are different than what is written constitutes a lie. It is deception. (Just reflect on the news this past week and how some of the stories have been retracted or altered.)

We are living in the age of information conveyed within a vortex of zealousness. But zeal does not equal truth. It is often passionate noise at best, superfluous drivel at worst. But truth is frequently hard to find.

As Charles Lindbergh reminds us; "In times of war truth is always replaced with propaganda." The fact is we are living in a time of war. Our war is of a spiritual nature according to the Apostle Paul:
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against the rulers, against the powers, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
(Eph. 6:12)

The devil has been a liar from the beginning and his strategy and schemes involve deception and dishonesty. He is after all - the deceiver!  (John 8:44)

We are people of the truth. We are to speak the truth in love. Christians are to call out the darkness and let our light shine bright. We are not to be gullible or beguiled and believe every voice in the news or on Facebook or Twitter, whether it be secular or sacred in its source.

It is time for us to be tough minded and critical in our thinking. We must "not be tossed around by every wind of doctrine" or editorial. The church is the Pillar of Truth (I Tim. 3:15) for the word of Jesus is Truth. (John 17:17)

As Thomas Sowell reminds us:
"It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying the sense of moral superiority in their ignorance."
However it's even more difficult with those who lie.
Serving Him with you
Until He comes for us,
Fred