Jeremiah Tipton examines why people lie: understatement, exaggeration, omission, breaking your word. He argues God doesn't lie and neither should you, pushing back against the small deceptions we rationalize every day.
Lying is a sin of the tongue that destroys not just your life, but your reputation and people's trust in you. Lying isn't just giving you false information. Lying is also making an understatement. Lying is also making an exaggeration. Lying is also giving your word and then willingly breaking your word. You see, there are circumstances like if I say I'll be there in 10 minutes And then I get a flat tire, that's not lying. But if I say I'll be there in 10 minutes and I haven't even started getting ready yet, I'm lying. We lie to avoid conflict. We lie to avoid accountability. We lie because we don't like tension. We lie because we don't want responsibility. We lie because we're lazy. We lie because we want people to think of us as better than we actually are. We lie because we want to make understatements that make problems seem smaller so that we don't feel like we're getting in trouble for them. Lying is leaving out information to manipulate the situation. I may not have told you an outright lie, but I left out enough information to cause you to think differently about it than it actually was. God does not lie. Don't lie to each other.
