Put Lying Lips to Silence

Post date: Feb 15, 2015 4:40:20 AM

Read Psalm 31:17-24

“Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous” (v. 18).

Several men were seated in a circle talking, and the subject turned to fishing. As it often happens in such circles, one story is told, and another tops it with his story of success. Glenn, who could have been described as having some cognitive limitations, was among the men. He had a story of his own. He said he had caught a very big fish. He was asked, “How big?”

“Well,” he said, “it was so big it took a half hour for the hole in the water to close up!”

Now that was a story!

As I remember it, about that time the group erupted with laughter and dispersed. They had been bested by someone they thought was incapable of such declarations, but remember that lying, shading the truth, and exaggerations come under the condemnation of God.

God is truth. God expects truth from the lips of His people. Truth is the very fabric of the gospel, and we discredit it if we fail to tell the truth. God tells us about how really sinful and helpless we are apart from God, and by God’s grace we will dwell in a realm where truth and truth alone is the order of the day. (Lonnie Witt)

They who practice lying are not a reflection of the Author of truth.

This week's featured devotional is from the Wednesday, February 11, 2015 entry of Opening the Word.

Photo credit: "38 Pounder from Eldean" by Tim Creque used under CC BY 2.0 / Resized, cropped.