Lies are like sheets. We pile them on to keep us cozy, away from shame, fear of failure, rejection etc. but there soon arises a need for oxygen and we find out that our nakedness becomes exposed. Now all the lies we piled up are a vapor.
If you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet. Proverbs 3:24
That is a promise! HOWEVER He says this first;
13 Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding,
21 My son, do not lose sight of these— keep sound wisdom and discretion,
The Lord gives!
Proverbs 2 6 For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; 7 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
There are so many promises we may attain through keeping His word in our heart and mind. When we allow them to transform our mind and conform it to the mind of Christ. By allow, I by no means mean to say that God is subject to our choice to do so or not. For it is by grace that we have the opportunity to wholeheartedly seek His wisdom and understanding through His word and in prayer through the desire which He himself places in us through the Holy Spirit! Ultimately, if we are chosen He gets us to where we need to be!
In this case I chose to speak of lies and how they enable the opposite of what God’s word does. They enable fear, failure, laziness, ungodliness, pride etc. which can be classified as sin, all of which keep us far away from God. He does not delight in any of the above mentioned.
I pray that you choose God’s word which may require dying to your flesh but there is a greater reward if you chose to do so. As Paul writes to the church at Corinth:
Treasure in jars of clay-
But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you. Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God. So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
(2 Corinthians 4:7-18 ESV)
The word of God speaks clearly and for itself. We simply need to be in it!