When others lie to you too...

Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, told him, “If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.” So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled away and escaped. Michal took an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats' hair at its head and covered it with the clothes. And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.” Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.” And when the messengers came in, behold, the image was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' hair at its head. Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me thus and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” And Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go. Why should I kill you?’” (1 Samuel 19:11-17 ESV) Saul's life was full of half-truths. He claimed that other people made him do things. He claimed over and over to have fully obeyed God. He told Samuel that "things just happened. He raised his daughter that way. Yet he acts surprised when she deceives him. He is appalled when she imitates his actions and thinks it is okay. Do you get angry when people lie to you? I think we all do. But what half-truths do we allow to slip by? What perceptions do we allow to exist that are not fully accurate? It can be in word or deed, at home or work, or spread throughout life's relationships. The Great Liar runs about deceiving and infecting our world with lies. It's not that surprising. But why would we want to do so? Let's ask the True One to watch over our words, thoughts and actions today to examine them for the smallest trace of a lie. May our words be true, our hearts be pure, and our actions honest before Him.