Help for liars on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association

of Certified Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that

people face lying is a big problem in our world in fact it's a problem that nearly everyone struggles with

and absolutely everyone has been guilty of telling a lie at some point or another in their life

some people tell lies

just to tell lies. One person who lied for this reason was me. In fact, I'm aware that when I first

came to Christ, one of the first problems that the Lord began to deal with me on was my proclivity to tell lies, to be

dishonest. I would tell lies just to tell them. I would tell my friends that I was rich and we were

not rich. I would tell my friends lies that were not at all believable. I would tell my friends

that my father was Bill Cosby and my mother was

Anne Murray. Now, I don't know how in the world that's believable. I don't know why I said it.

Those lies that I told are crazy and unbelievable. And I actually don't know how many of my

friends in elementary school believed me when I said it. But I did say those

things and I did it just to do it. I did it because I liked lying. I liked deception. And I'm thankful

that the Lord changed my heart in that way to make me a truth teller. But I would just lie to do it.

Plenty of people do that. More regularly,

dishonesty and lying are brought into the service of some other sin. It's the cover-up.

We do something. We don't want others to know or we don't want others to know how bad it is,

and so we engage in deception to cover our sin. Lying is a big problem.

And interestingly enough, National Geographic knows about that. The reason I mention National

Geographic is because they have a cover story in their latest edition, and it's called Why We La,

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