Today’s devotional Written By An Insightful Young Woman: Tracy Koweh
Blood is Thicker than Water
The Family that Lies Together, Dies Together
Proverbs 12:22 (Amplified Bible)
22Lying lips are extremely disgusting and hateful to the Lord, but they who deal faithfully are His delight.(A)
One lie.
It turns into another lie, which turns into a couple lies, until no one remembers the original truth. I remember growing up and my mother telling me that the hardest part of a lie, was keeping it going. Once you tell one lie, you have to keep telling lies to make the first lie appear true. I also remember that sick feeling I would get in my stomach right before I prepared myself to tell a lie. The Bible says the truth will set you free and that we should not bare false witness on our neighbors. If God's word is the truth, the way and the light to our paths, how can we justify the lies within our family trees?
Last night while riding around with Shane, we got to talking about my dad cooking some curry chicken. I told Shane that I didn't want him to taste my dad’s curry, because he would never want to eat my curry again. He asked what was wrong if he liked somebody else's cooking better than mine. We went back and forth awhile because I felt that was a little white lie that would keep our relationship happy. But as I waited on our order to get ready, the Lord reminded me that there is no "white lie" clause in the Bible. The truth will set you free means just that.
So many of us are slaves to our own family secrets. From childhood we are taught, what happens at home stays at home. We have children at school holding in secrets of being molested, raped and abused at home. We have adults unable to fully function properly in relationships because their carrying secrets around that people would kill for to keep buried. Every time we lie to each other, we not only cripple that person but ourselves as well, until the core of both parties slowly start to die. Family lies are also some of the most hypocritical. We tell our children they will be punished for lying, yet we teach them to lie to protect us. Don't answer the door if it’s a Jehovah Witness, tell the bill collector we are not home, and the list goes on and on.
Whether your family secrets are from this generation, generations to come, or generations that have long pasted away, today you can stand and break the cycle. Make your family legacy one of truth, and honesty. Be brave enough to trust the Word of God and know that God will keep you. I have so many family lies that I've had to carry around that I am unable to even connect with certain family members. When I look at them, all I can see is the crime they committed and I want to scream, but I can't. I am crippled, but I refuse to carry it any longer. I am in a season of purging and although it hurts, the small victories and deliverances are pushing me closer to my purpose.
Today as we prepare to enter into the weekend, let the words we speak be truth. Call a spade a spade, a drunk a drunk, and an abuser just that. The same goes for the drug user, the liar, the spouse abuser, the manipulator, the gambler, the emotionally wrecked, the quitter, the homosexual, the smoker, the drug dealer, and whatever other demon needs to be called out. Healing and deliverance can never come before exposure, admittance and acceptance. The family the lies together, will cry and spiritually die together. But praise God the family that presses through together, will prosper and prevail together.
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