BBD 06.23.21 The Cost of Lies (Classic)

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Classic from 2002

The Burning Bush Devotional

23 June 2021

The Cost of Lies

You shall
not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. - Leviticus 19:11.

I have
hope in God, which they themselves also accept, that there will be a
resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust. This being so, I
myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men. -
Acts 24:16.

Maybe
the biggest political liar of all time was elected in 1994 to the Court of
Criminal Appeals in Texas. After his election Steve Mansfield actually admitted
to several lies and exaggerations. He claimed to have vast experience in
criminal law but actually his experience was in insurance and tax law. He
claimed to have been born in Texas, but he was actually born in Massachusetts.
As a way of gaining sympathy, he claimed to have been dating a woman who died
but actually she was still alive at the time of the election. He also claimed
to have lived in Houston when he was a child but when confronted about this
during an interview admitted that was a lie.

Lies
and deceit according to Mansfield are only “puffery” and “exaggerations.” But after his election to the highest criminal court in Texas,
Mansfield said he would stop his pufferies and exaggerations. Judge Mansfield
chose not to seek re-election in 2000 after he was arrested trying to scalp
University of Texas football tickets in 1998 on the university campus.
Mansfield received a deferred adjudication with a one-year probation for
criminal trespass and was reprimanded by the Texas State Commission on Judicial
Conduct.

There
is whole lot of lying, cheating, and deceiving going on in the United States.
According to a survey of 40,000 adults 9 out of 10 admitted that they lie on a
habitual basis. This includes the 93 percent who lie at work and the 35 percent
that cheat on their husbands or wives (Sometimes both the husband and wife are
having extramarital affairs.). Additional research indicates that one out of
every five marriages is hampered by an extramarital affair.

Do
people who lie, cheat, deceive, have secret affairs get away without any
consequences? It may appear to be that way at
times but there are consequences. Besides the obvious pain when
secrets are finally revealed there are adverse health consequences. Studies
have revealed that those who are keeping secrets (Secrets are kept through
lying, cheating, and deceiving.) have more problems than others with anxiety,
depression, headaches, and back pain. Research also indicates that the more
effort is expended in keeping those secrets the more adverse the health consequences.
(Information regarding studies and research from article by Bob Condor
published in Daily Oklahoma October 1, 2002.)

Before
I was a Christian and for several years after I became a Christian, I had a
serious problem with lying. I would often lie to avoid confrontations with
Jeanie (my wife) and to make myself look better in the eyes of other people.
God used Jeanie in a powerful way to help me understand that it was always
better in the long run to tell the truth. Telling the truth often hurts but to
hide the truth and for it to be revealed later is much more painful. Even if
the truth is never revealed hiding the truth still hurts you. We should be like
the apostle and strive always to keep our conscience clear before God and man.
Isn’t that a much better way to live?

Copyright © 1998 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman’ Pat S.; Buck & Barbara
Wright; GWEN PRUET; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Addison;
JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Todd
Higgins; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; John W.; Patricia Rohman and Lisa Butler who
has had a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark S.; Lana
Bass; Matthew Collins; Marjean C.; Bradley E.; Fern McVey; Bill S.; Shonda Hutson;
and Sharon H.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview
Baptist Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

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Posted by: theburningbushdevotional <theburningbushdevotional@...>

Classic from 2002

The Burning Bush Devotional

23 June 2021

The Cost of Lies

You shall
not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. - Leviticus 19:11.

I have
hope in God, which they themselves also accept, that there will be a
resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust. This being so, I
myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men. -
Acts 24:16.

Maybe
the biggest political liar of all time was elected in 1994 to the Court of
Criminal Appeals in Texas. After his election Steve Mansfield actually admitted
to several lies and exaggerations. He claimed to have vast experience in
criminal law but actually his experience was in insurance and tax law. He
claimed to have been born in Texas, but he was actually born in Massachusetts.
As a way of gaining sympathy, he claimed to have been dating a woman who died
but actually she was still alive at the time of the election. He also claimed
to have lived in Houston when he was a child but when confronted about this
during an interview admitted that was a lie.

Lies
and deceit according to Mansfield are only “puffery” and “exaggerations.” But after his election to the highest criminal court in Texas,
Mansfield said he would stop his pufferies and exaggerations. Judge Mansfield
chose not to seek re-election in 2000 after he was arrested trying to scalp
University of Texas football tickets in 1998 on the university campus.
Mansfield received a deferred adjudication with a one-year probation for
criminal trespass and was reprimanded by the Texas State Commission on Judicial
Conduct.

There
is whole lot of lying, cheating, and deceiving going on in the United States.
According to a survey of 40,000 adults 9 out of 10 admitted that they lie on a
habitual basis. This includes the 93 percent who lie at work and the 35 percent
that cheat on their husbands or wives (Sometimes both the husband and wife are
having extramarital affairs.). Additional research indicates that one out of
every five marriages is hampered by an extramarital affair.

Do
people who lie, cheat, deceive, have secret affairs get away without any
consequences? It may appear to be that way at
times but there are consequences. Besides the obvious pain when
secrets are finally revealed there are adverse health consequences. Studies
have revealed that those who are keeping secrets (Secrets are kept through
lying, cheating, and deceiving.) have more problems than others with anxiety,
depression, headaches, and back pain. Research also indicates that the more
effort is expended in keeping those secrets the more adverse the health consequences.
(Information regarding studies and research from article by Bob Condor
published in Daily Oklahoma October 1, 2002.)

Before
I was a Christian and for several years after I became a Christian, I had a
serious problem with lying. I would often lie to avoid confrontations with
Jeanie (my wife) and to make myself look better in the eyes of other people.
God used Jeanie in a powerful way to help me understand that it was always
better in the long run to tell the truth. Telling the truth often hurts but to
hide the truth and for it to be revealed later is much more painful. Even if
the truth is never revealed hiding the truth still hurts you. We should be like
the apostle and strive always to keep our conscience clear before God and man.
Isn’t that a much better way to live?

Copyright © 1998 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

http://www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman’ Pat S.; Buck & Barbara
Wright; GWEN PRUET; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Addison;
JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Todd
Higgins; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; John W.; Patricia Rohman and Lisa Butler who
has had a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark S.; Lana
Bass; Matthew Collins; Marjean C.; Bradley E.; Fern McVey; Bill S.; Shonda Hutson;
and Sharon H.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview
Baptist Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email.

You may subscribe to the html text group (Because of time
constraints the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a
blank email to burningbushhtml-join@welovegod.org and you may unsubscribe by
sending a blank email to burningbushhtml-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email. If the link does not work, copy and paste the link.

To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org