BBD 07.26.16 Lying Like a Dog (Classic)
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Classic from 2004
Burning Bush Devotional
26 July 2016
But this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a
sect, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are
written in the Law and in the Prophets. 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
24:14-16.
You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. - Leviticus
19:11.
Sofia Aguilar’s car, a Mitsubishi 3000 GT, was having
some transmission problems and she did what most of us would do, she took her
car to a mechanic. Rocky Castilleja, a San Antonio, Texas mechanic for weeks
told Sofia that her car was not yet repaired. When she went by the mechanic’s
shop to check on it in person she found the car had an extra 190 miles on the
odometer. Castilleja explained that the extra miles was a result of diagnostic
testing, which seemed reasonable to Sofia. Several weeks later (Her car had not
yet been returned.), Sofia and her family went to the races. She was shocked to
see her mechanic on the track, and…he was driving her car!! Upon closer
inspection they found that it was indeed her car and with an additional 340
miles on it. Sofia called the police and the mechanic claimed that Sofia, “knew
I was going to test drive her car.”
However, after a short investigation officers arrested Castilleja for unlawful
use of a vehicle.
It is amazing the creative license some take with the
truth! Too many times, I have been disappointed to learn that someone has
looked me in the eyes and lied. It is hard for me to understand why a person
would persistently tell one lie after another unless they do not know the Lord
as their Savior. I will confess that I have lied before, but it is not
something that I can do habitually, because it wounds my conscience and grieves
the Holy Spirit. I, as did the apostle Paul, strive to keep my conscience clear
before God and man, because to do otherwise is much too painful.
Why did the apostle Paul strive to keep his conscience
clear? As he explained before Felix, he had hope in God. In other words, he
believed that God was real, and that there would someday be an accounting for
our actions. Paul had a fear, a reverence, and respect for God, because he
looked beyond to eternity. There is more to life than what just meets our eyes.
There is something more important than any situation where we are tempted to
tell an untruth to make things better for us, or to make ourselves look better.
God knows exactly what we are doing. Let us ponder very carefully our actions
in view of the eternal fact that there is a God and some bright shining day we
who know Jesus as our Savior will walk by sight in His presence.
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