Friday... Where do they come from?

Psalm 12:1-2 & 4 (MSG) says, "Quick, God, I need your helping hand! The last decent person just went down, all the friends I depended on gone. Everyone talks in lie language; lies slide off their oily lips. They double talk with forked tongues. I'm tired of hearing, 'We can talk anyone into anything! Our lips manage the world.'"

Proverbs 12:5 (NLT) says, "The plans of the wise are just; the advice of the wicked is treacherous." And verse 19, "Truthful words stand the test of time, but lies are soon exposed."

Back to Psalm 12. Verses 6-8 (MSG) says, "God's words are pure words, pure silver words refined seven times in the fire of his word-kiln, pure on earth as well as heaven. God, keep us safe from their lies, from the wicked who stalks us with lies, from the wicked who collect honors for their wonderful lies."

And then Proverbs 12:3, "You can't find firm footing in a swamp, but life rooted in God stands firm."

Jesus over in Matthew 16 was having a conversation with his twelve disciples, telling them about what was going to happen to him and Peter, one of the twelve spoke up. He was kind of rebuking Jesus for his negative view of what was going to happen to him. Jesus was telling them about the way he was going to die and that he would be raised from the grave.

Verse 22 (NLT) says, "But Peter took him aside and began to reprimand him for saying such things. 'Heaven forbid, Lord,' he said. 'This will never happen to you!'" Verse 23 says, "Jesus turned to Peter and said, 'Get away from me, Satan! You are a dangerous trap to me. You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not from God's'"

And that is what God wants. Not for us to just see things merely from a human point of view which some of them are lies but from God's. That is where the real truth comes from. That is why we need to spend time in God's Word. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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