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Friday! Proverbs!
A false witness
will not go unpunished, and he who
breathes out lies
will not escape.
Proverbs 19:5 ESV
If only this were true!
That person who I know has not told the truth, they who breathe out lies (love that phrase; breathe out lies) just seem to get away with it...
Where's the justice?
And then, there's me.
I've breathed out lies.
And sometimes there's been justice, and sometimes not. Do I want more justice on me?
And then there's the lies of the enemy, the father of lies, who would use anything to turn us from God.
And then there's the lies of the world, our culture, which try to tell us what success looks like, how we should live.
And then there's the lies that seem to have taken up residence in my mind, that pop up to tell me I'm not, and never will be good enough...maybe you have your own version of those...
One day the father of lies will be punished.
All that is broken in this world will be unbroken.
And the lies in my mind will be swept away by a final tsunami of grace.
But until then, the battle is on and we seek and hold onto and remind ourselves of, live in, and live out, the truth...
#redeemed
#known
#chosen
#childofGod
#dearlyloved

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