HONESTY

HONESTY

 

I was impressed by the devotional from ODB on April 30, 2010. The author said that someone in the USA had chosen this day back in the early '90s to be called "National Honesty Day". His rationale was that since April 1 was referred to as "April Fools Day", a day that promoted lying, then April 30 should be declared a day to honor truth. He said "April begins with a day dedicated to lying [April Fools Day] and should end on a higher note". Although I might agree with his thought, I have never seen a calendar with this day marked as a special day, so I assume he never gained much support for his good intention!

 

God's Word does have a lot to say about honesty, for example we read in (Numbers 23:19) NLT "God is not a man so He does not lie. He is not human, so He does not change His mind." Also we know that He hates falsehood (Prov 6:16-19), and of course Jesus said that Satan is the father of all lies (John 8:44). As opposed to that Jesus stated clearly in (John 14:6) "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me." So, on the basis of these scriptures alone we can safely say that this man had a solid foundation for his declaration about this day being called "National Honesty Day"!

 

But we see so much dishonesty in the world around us, in all segments of society, especially in governments and the financial world! During the recent credit crisis in 2008 we saw probably the worst case scenarios, with many large corporation CEO's giving themselves huge bonuses, while their companies were going bankrupt. This is nothing but "greed", which is listed in scripture as one of the seven deadly sins! It was also stealing from the shareholders of that company, in my opinion.

 

I think honesty and truth go together in one camp, and dishonestly and lies are in an opposite camp. And if we know that Jesus is "truth", and Satan is the father of "lies", then our choice should be rather simple. But the problem is that because Satan is a liar, and the father of all lies, he is therefore the "arch deceiver" who is behind all deception. And remember how Jesus warned us about the danger of being deceived by false teachers in these last days (Matt 24: 5, 11, 24), and by Paul in (2 Thess 2:1-12), that's why we did supernatural discernment (1 Cor 12:10) to escape deception!!

Sincerely submitted.

Dave Jamer