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Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. Or if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.- James 1:21-24
There are lots of people who are good at lying. Being cheap and dishonest just comes naturally for many unwise, immature people.
Lying goes on every day, obviously. There are those little white lies – the “polite” lies. Then, there are lies that go on in the government. These lies cost money, time, and energy. There are some lies that cost people’s lives.
These lies are all pretty horrible. As the citizen of a dishonest government, we see through the thinly veiled dishonesty, and we understand the foolishness and futility of it all.
But there’s one type of lie that’s even worse. This kind of lie can cause such a deep hole to be dug, that it seems (in some cases), as if there’s no hope for honesty ever again.
I’m talking a horrible kind of deceit, and it’s called self-deceit.
