Most of the people I work with on a daily basis are not believers. They do not the Savior who sets us free from the father of lies. The believers I work with still struggle with this as well because the father of lies has just entangled this country in telling them that little white lies don't matter, that telling people lies about the products they sell is not a big deal, starting rumors based off no real information is just how life works etc. Just as the US as a whole struggles with materialism and other sins that are more attributed to that nation. The father of lies has a stronghold on this country with people lying all the time. . Then the Lord began to show me that lies are at the basis of almost all sins.
when someone cheats on a test...they are lying that it is their answers
when someone commits adultery...they are lying to their spouse about being faithful to them
when someone robs something....they are lying to themselves that they can take something that is not theirs
when someone looks at porn.....they are lying to the society because they are hiding from everyone else what they really do ......
The list goes on and on. I was talking to my friend Fernando about what the Lord was teaching me about lying, and he reminded me that the first sin committed was based off a lie. The devil (the serpent) lied to Eve about the true consequences of eating the forbidden fruit and convinced her to do it. Lying was the basis of the first sin and really all sins for that matter.
I started having a small pity party for myself because even my "close" friends have lied to me lately. I was asking myself, how can I ever really have true friends here, if I literally do not trust anyone right now besides my teammate Jessi. Then the Lord spoke to me again, and said "Lauren, I didn't bring you here to have friends. I brought you here to share my gospel with people that needed it. I was reminded that my purpose here was to sacrifice in whatever way for the gospel. Then God reminded me also how he had provided several really strong friendships in the states, and in his perfect timing when I am recently learning that people who I thought I could trust, I can't, he allowed my brother to donate to me an iphone. This phone has been such a huge blessing to me because through it I can text my friends from the states. My generation is not so big on talking on the phone, so for the first time in 3 years, I can be "normal" again and text my friends. The Lord always provides, it is just imperative, we trust him in every circumstance, and realize as Christians we are not here to judge the sins that people are entrenched in, but to share the love of the Jesus Christ. Besides, I am not perfect by any stretch of the imagination either. I may not lie like people so commonly do here, but I have done plenty of other things in my lifetime and on a daily basis that do not glorify Jesus Christ. Let us keep on pressing on and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ, the only one who can break the chains of the father of lies.
- John 8:44
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
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