INTEGRITY IN THE HOME AND MARRIAGE

James 3:5, NKJV,

“Even so, the tongue is a little member and boasts great things.

See how great a forest a little fire kindles!“

THE PROBLEM AND SIN: LYING LIPS

You hear, ” Everyone lies.” It is accepted. We all fall short, and we “sometimes” skirt around the “white lies,” known as the small fibs we say often to get around something. In the Bible, Colossians 3:9, NKJV, “Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds..”

“We don’t have any more cookies”- when there are some in the pantry. “I am coming home”-when you may be stopping somewhere else that is contradictory to your beliefs and values or that could threaten your marriage. ” I do not do that anymore”- when it may be habitual and you need help. “I do not talk to this person anymore”-yet you KNOW you have a relationship with someone who hinders your walk with the Lord, marriage, and home. Gossiping and instigation with the intent to harm relationships is not of the Lord and should also not be a characteristic of a believer in Jesus. Additionally, hiding things is a form of lying. Manipulating the situation because you already lied about something in the home will just keep spirialing. It is NOT of integrity. Exodus 20:16, NKJV, “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”

Is there something you need to bring to the Lord? Confess and repent. Do you want to continue lying and living in a way that will hurt your home and relationships? Go to the Lord! He knows all things! He knows our hearts.

We are sinners. We need Christ. The smallest things like our lips and hearts intentions will cause us to stumble and do stupid things. Things that could cost a marriage, and hurt family and friends. Lying is one of them. As a wife, mother, sister, and friend, as a person(man or female)- we should be walking in purity, integrity and, faith in Jesus every day. You may be thinking that a post about “lying”. Well yes…because opening your mouth when you know the words that will roll off the tongue could change everything is so important.

Integrity is so important to have in your marriage and home. It is important to be the foundation in a Bible teaching church. I mean if it is a Bible teaching church it should be built on integrity, right? We would be surprised, unfortunately.

Proverbs 12:22, NKJV, says,

“Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord,
But those who deal truthfully are His delight”.

Without honesty how can a relationship have trust? Without being transparent with everything, how can we continue to grow, foster, and learn from each other as mothers, wives, husbands, fathers, and friends? The Bible describes, Satan as the “father of lies”- “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it” John 8:44, NKJV. Why would we want to be apart of the evil one in this behavior….

As a wife and mother, let’s strive to be honest, holy, godly, loving, submissive, and kind. Let us shut our mouths when we desire to “gossip”. Let us be honest with our children even when we are exhausted. Please remember to cover your home in prayer, especially your husband. Pray that he walks in purity and integrity as the father and leader of the home. Satan is after our homes. Satan goes after the family. Let us stay prayed up and guarded. Christ lives in us and he will give us the strength to produce the Fruit of the Spirit. He will give us power. Power to love and resist all the temptation.

In the Book of Revelation 21:8, NKJV, “But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” As believers, let us not have any part in this. A LIAR is A LIAR. Let us be faithful in ALL things and be honest. Lying lips and motives bring about a broken home that will be empty and cold. All because of how you talk and what you say. This everyday action we need to invite Christ into.

I wanna say. Let us be honest. Keep Christ at the center. Store His word in your heart. Be open and honest with your husbands! Build your marriage on trust and the foundation of the Lord. Honor your husbands. Honor your wife. Love your children. The smallest things that are sins can become larger ones fairly quickly. Do not let this happen especially by your behavior. Lying will ruin relationships. It will hurt and scar marriages. Be of INTEGRITY IN EVERY AREA OF YOUR LIFE!!!!!

When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated with iron and bolted inside. At last he sees a little window in a chamber. He cannot get in, so he puts a little boy in, that he may go round and open the back door. So the devil has always his little sins to carry about with him to go and open back doors for him, and we let one in and say, ‘O, it is only a little one.’ Yes, but how that little one becomes the ruin of the entire man!

-Charles Spurgeon

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