Do You Give Away Your Freedom by Lying?
Being Honest Helps You Stay Free!
We’ve all heard stories about someone lying and getting found out. I’ve done it myself. Once the lier gets caught, they are owned. Your lie allows give others the right to take away some of your own freedom.
Your personal freedom is one of the most important things you need to protect. One way to protect your freedom is to tell the truth. If you tell a lie about your brother, for example, you are indebted to him. You have lost some of your freedom. When you are found out, your brother will come collecting. Even if he forgives you, he will not trust you again, and that lack of trust restricts what you can do with your brother. That is a loss of freedom.
The same is for any rule of good intent — you need to keep your freedom. If you steal, murder, covet, fornicate, or commit adultery, you are giving away your freedom and part of your life.
Now, the way to prevent ourselves from doing such things is to love God first, and to love our neighbours second. To keep something that has high value to yourself is to love something other than yourself. Greed may seem the logical way to gain money and possessions for yourself, but it takes away your freedom.
What is freedom? Freedom is the ability to say and do what you want. Once you tell a lie, you are in bondage to the lie because it decides what you can say in order for the lie to be hidden. The lie becomes your slave master.
It’s a really simple life lesson, and I don’t think there is anything else that needs to be said about it.
