A lie creates a chain reaction that shapes your feelings, thoughts, and actions into repeating sin cycles. Most people treat the symptoms like depression or shame without addressing the original deception underneath, so the cycle keeps coming back.
Lies become deception. Deception becomes a certain way of feeling and thinking. And that way of feeling and thinking becomes an action. You begin to act according to that lie. You begin to act according to those thoughts and feelings, which are based on that deception, which is based on a lie. And then watch this now. Then you get caught up in these cycles where it becomes a part of your life. It becomes habitual. Now, most Christians, and this is why many are not free, most Christians will try to address results of the deception, but they never confront the lie that caused it in the first place. Rather than going at the root, they only look at the results— the depression, the anxiety, the confusion, the lust, the condemnation, the shame, the lack of peace. All of that, you, you can address all of those symptoms, but if you don't deal with the root, which is the deception, that's just going to come to the surface again.
