The Lies We Tell Ourselves

It looks OK to me. –Eve One look won’t hurt. –Lot’s Wife

No one will ever find out. – Bathsheba

It’s just one little lie. –Ananias

After all I’ve done God will make an exception for me- Moses

She looks good to me. –Samson

I’m smart enough to handle them- Solomon

Even if everybody else denies you, I won’t. –Peter

I won’t get greedy. –Judas

Look, I had no other choice. –King Saul

It’s not exactly what God said but I’m sure He won’t mind. – Nadab

You have to keep up with the times.- Ahab

He just asks too much. – Rich Young Ruler

Sound familiar? The lies we tell ourselves to justify our action. Ones we make to get us to feel better about what we are doing. We convince ourselves that the wrong is right. That even though it might be wrong for somebody else, this is the exception.

Those excuses and rationalization didn’t work for them. They don’t work for us either.

1 Corinthians 10:11-12

Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.

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