I
don’t remember how old I was when I first heard the term “White
lie”, but I must have been very young. For those of you who have
never heard this term before, I would define it as a very, small
modification of the truth, with the intent of not hurting someone by
telling them the unvarnished truth. My Wordnet dictionary has a
slightly different description:
“1.
white lie -- (an unimportant lie (especially one told to be tactful
or polite))”
Frankly,
I like my definition better because there is no such thing as an
unimportant lie, for even the smallest lie has a tendency to snowball
into something enormous. And then I thought of something the Apostle
James said…
James
1 ( World English
Bible )
Jam 1:13, Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,”
for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
Jam 1:14, But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own
lust, and enticed.
Jam 1:15, Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the
sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.
If
you know something is even a little bit wrong; do not do it. Because,
if you do it once, you will find it easier to do it again and each
time you are presented with a choice to sin or not sin, it will
become so easy that it will become a habit and eventually destroy
you.
If
you look closely at the picture, that last “domino” (the big one
on the left) is the one that will finally get you, but it could have
been avoided if only you had not done the little thing in the first
place.
Remember
this Gary...