Covered

August 8

Who hasn’t occasionally committed the ‘little white lie’? From fudging on an income tax document to pilfering a quote or two for a term paper, many have succumbed to the lure of the convenient departure from absolute truth in order to attempt to facilitate ones ends through duplicity.

Even the great heroes of the faith have lied to save their own skin. Who can forget Abraham who when traveling through Egypt with his beautiful wife Sarah told pharaoh that she was his sister. Why? Pharaoh wanted to marry her and Abraham realized he might be murdered if pharaoh didn’t get what he wanted.

God allowed pharaoh to be warned of Abraham’s duplicity in a dream so Sarah was spared the ordeal that would have faced her if the arrangement had been consummated. In Proverbs 12:22, the Word tells us that “Lying lips are detestable to the Lord, but faithful people are His delight.” Abraham failed God miserably in the truth-telling department.

But that did not negate God’s intent to use him and his wife Sarah to establish a nation. We who also are inclined to fail God, even in our abysmal attempts to be obedient to His Word, must take heart, recognizing that our failures, like Abraham’s, are covered by the mercy and grace of the Lord. And unlike Abraham, we have the full knowledge of salvation—purchased by Jesus’ blood.