Telling Lies

Lies need to look as much like the truth as possible, without actually being the truth. Otherwise we wouldn’t believe them.

I’ve been learning in the last couple months how easily influenced we can be by media and society. To the point that we have allowed them to feed the small lies that we have told ourselves, or that others have told us.

Lies like: I am not beautiful, I’m not worth it, I don’t measure up, I will never be good enough, etc. These are lies I’ve believed.

But I’m choosing to stand and live on truth instead…and the truth is that those things ARE LIES!

In the garden, right after Adam and Eve choose independence from God and ate the fruit in disobedience, God looked for them. He didn’t come with fire and lightening bolts in a rage, ready to destroy them. Rather, he came walking in the garden in concern and with questions. Of all the questions he could have asked, his was this. “Who told you that you were naked?” I read that and hear a God whose heart broke when man disobeyed because, in listening to the lies of the snake, they abandoned the full and rich life He had made for them.

This song comes from that passage. I wrote it because I believe he is asking us that question also. WHO TOLD YOU…you weren’t beautiful, you weren’t worth it, you weren’t enough, etc? Those are lies.