Sept 20, 2020 … “No Lie !!”

 

Berry Patch Devotions in 2020 - Day 264 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...     Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group Casting Crowns singing … Love You with the Truth … powerfully singing of how we are called by God’s word to love others by telling the truth. 

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Highlight Passage:  Exodus 23:1 [ESV] ... 

1 “You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. 

…    God’s command to NEVER lie or give false witness. 

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Highlight Passage [Context]: …   Exodus 23:1-3 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK … 

…  God was very clear about his commands to NEVER tell lies or spread false witness. [See also the 9th Commandment in Exod. 20:16] 

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Reference Passage: …  Proverbs 12:19  [ESV] …   

<i> 19  Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment. </i>

…  Solomon exhorts God’s truth about speaking truth.    

Reference Passage: …  Zechariah 8:16  [NKJV] …   

16 These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace; …  

… According to God’s command we are to speak the truth and do all we can to make peace with our words …  

Reference Passage: …  John 17:17  [NKJV] …   

17 Sanctify them in the truth; You word is the truth …   

… Jesus prayed that we (Christians) to be sanctified in and by the truth of God’s word.  

Reference Passage: …  Ephesians 4:25, 29 [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK …   

… Paul, exhorting fellow Christians to be unified, charges us to speak the truth in love and avoid any corrupted words [i.e., lies].

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Amy Boucher Pye, AT THIS LINK  tells of an 18th Century English Pastor who had to deal with much gossip, slander, and many lies when he became the new Pastor of his church; … and further about how the lies impeded God’s love being shared in an atmosphere of disunity.   

God’s word, and His commands, are very clear about what we see in the attached photo, isn’t it?  From the 9th commandment, and in both the Old and New Testaments [see Scriptures above], God’s truth demands our truth, doesn’t it?  So, do I need to expound further to exhort all reading here to use our words exclusively and truthfully, as Paul exhorts in Ephesians 4 above) to build up others and give them God’s grace thru our words?  …  I think not!!  

So, my prayer is that we implement God’s truth … and share it with others today. 

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for being my Truth so that I can speak Your truth to others. 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me today, to speak “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, … so help us, God.” .… Amen

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