Get it right in from Lewisville, Texas to say, I've come to realize painfully that I'm

a compulsive liar, possibly pathological, mostly just to gain attention.

However, I hate that I do this, especially now that I see that I do it.

It's such a bad habit.

I can't break it on my own.

I've been saved for a little while now and I can see its toll on my walk and on my life.

What steps can I take to end my addiction to lying?

Well, what I'm going to fasten on, Garrett, is your statement that you say you do it mostly

to gain attention.

Now, there are a lot of reasons why people lie, you've pointed out one.

There may be others in you, but I think you're right, that's a huge reason why we exaggerate,

which are untruths and why we just flat out affirm things that aren't so, because if

we deny them, then we're going to look bad in other people's eyes.

So you put your finger on a deep cause of untruth and lying in people's eyes.

So let me go at that root.

Why do you want need, crave the attention, the approval, the admiration of other people

so much?

I think that's the question you should ask, and you should dig down to the root of that

and expose that, and here, let me help you do that.

You, as a believer, have God's attention, God's adoption, God's delight, God's assistance

and promise, God's commitment, and you will one day have his complete acceptance into

a flawless heaven.

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