Dear Lord; Happy Monday Father.\u00a0 As always, I\u2019d like to start today by thanking You for the Blessings You bestowed on me this past weekend.\u00a0 While we had some disappointments in regards to plans that had been made, I did get to spend quite a bit of relaxed time with my family and some friends.\u00a0 All in all, it was a quiet but happy couple of days and I thank You for that.<\/p>\n
This morning Lord, I\u2019d like to talk about honesty if I may.\u00a0 It\u2019s been a topic on my mind the last couple of days, as our disruption in plans this past weekend appears to have been the result of some deceit from someone Shannon and I had trusted.\u00a0 We haven\u2019t been able to confirm our suspicions yet, but it\u2019s extremely likely that we\u2019re correct in this case.\u00a0 Either way, the situation got me thinking about the importance of truth in our lives in general, and how as Your Children we need to focus on it in our lives.<\/p>\n
To begin with, I have to beg Your Forgiveness Lord.\u00a0 When I started going over the whole subject in my head, I put myself and my actions in a \u201clitmus test\u201d against Your Law and I found myself lacking.\u00a0 While I like to think of myself as an honest individual, if I truly subject myself to Your Absolutes I lie nearly every day in some fashion.\u00a0 Whether it\u2019s a \u201clittle white lie\u201d to avoid hurting someone\u2019s feelings, or telling my secretary that I\u2019m out if someone I don\u2019t want to hear from calls, they\u2019re lies no matter how you slice it.\u00a0 And when I expand that examination outward, it appears that we\u2019re a dishonest society in general Lord.<\/p>\n
Wow\u2026 What an intense realization for a Monday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.\u201d\u00a0 – Exodus 20:16<\/strong><\/p>\n Ah yes, the good old 9th<\/sup> Commandment.\u00a0 Although we all know this one, we also all violate it at some point as well.\u00a0 There are many other edicts about misrepresenting the truth in Your Book as well Lord, including :<\/p>\n \u201cDo not steal.\u00a0 Do not lie. \u00a0Do not deceive one another.\u201d\u00a0 – Leviticus 19:11<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in people who are trustworthy.\u201d \u2013 Proverbs 12:22<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThose who walk righteously Forgive us Lord, for in this respect we have lost our way.<\/p>\n Heavenly Father, please forgive us for our misdeeds.\u00a0 Purge our fragile hearts of dishonesty, and help us focus on Your Guidance and Light as we go about each day, so that we may serve Your Will with honesty and Integrity.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n ~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Lord; Happy Monday Father.\u00a0 As always, I\u2019d like to start today by thanking You for the Blessings You bestowed on me this past weekend.\u00a0 While we had some disappointments in regards to plans that had been made, I did get to spend quite a bit of relaxed time with my family and some friends.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[903,359,12,132,899,896,891,908,895,910,624,888,4,216,42,656,35,842,24,21,444,894,906,900,914,466,902,901,912,904,907,104,297,905,913,911,304,892,367,69,893,732,898,623,889,897,785,909,49,504],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-absolutes","tag-bible","tag-blessings","tag-children","tag-correct","tag-deceit","tag-disappointments","tag-dishonest","tag-disruption","tag-edicts","tag-exodus","tag-false","tag-family","tag-feelings","tag-focus","tag-forgive","tag-forgiveness","tag-fragile","tag-friends","tag-guidance","tag-happy","tag-honesty","tag-hurting","tag-importance","tag-integrity","tag-isaiah","tag-lacking","tag-law","tag-leviticus","tag-lie","tag-lies","tag-light","tag-litmus-test","tag-little-white-lie","tag-misdeeds","tag-misrepresenting","tag-monday","tag-plans","tag-proverbs","tag-quiet","tag-relaxed","tag-situation","tag-suspicions","tag-ten-commandments","tag-testimony","tag-trusted","tag-truth","tag-violate","tag-weekend","tag-will"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-8z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nand speak what is right,
\nwho reject gain from extortion
\nand keep their hands from accepting bribes,
\nwho stop their ears against plots of murder
\nand shut their eyes against contemplating evil\u2014
\nthey are the ones who will dwell on the heights,
\nwhose refuge will be the mountain fortress.
\nTheir bread will be supplied,
\nand water will not fail them.\u201d\u00a0 – Isaiah 33:15-16<\/strong><\/p>\n