Honesty

DEVOTION

PROVERBS

HONESTY

Prov 16:13

13 Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value a man who speaks the truth.

NIV

It would seem everyone would take pleasure in a person who does not lie, not just kings. There are pathological liars of course who simply cannot find the truth if it was staring them right in the face. We should not engage in lies, but rather the truth. There are times when the truth might be hurtful, and then what should we do? Is telling a lie in order to keep someone from certain pain acceptable? Maybe we should just stick to the surface of this saying by dealing with telling the truth to those who govern us. Like when we prepare our taxes, or tell the police it wasn’t us who were speeding, they got the wrong car, or some other ways we could lie and cheat our governing system. We know there are people who cheat about many of the entitlement programs and we know that we would never do that as believers. We do need to live an honest life not just among the body of Christ but as citizens of the country we abide in. That is the whole point, honesty is the best policy, even if it hurts, us or them.