What is it that you are coaching your child and others around you to do? To coach mean to train and guide someone to meet specific goals. The question is, what are your training and guiding the people around you to do?
Are you teaching the people around you that lying is okay? Are you telling others to back up your lie? Have you ever seen someone (whether it be a parent, a friend, or a co-worker) that will tell someone to lie on their behalf? Where they say, if someone asks, tell them this or that which is a lie. That’s coaching and that is training someone to do wrong. You have to live your life where truth is the final factor. God is truth and He wants your life to be in line with who and what He is.
There are some people who teach and train their children and the people around them to lie because that is the lifestyle they live. They live their lives by telling lies and then when others around them lie to them, they want to bring correction to them but can’t truly correct them because their own lives are based on untruths.
Living your life based on the truth is not an easy thing to do. There are times when you have to make mid-course corrections. There are times when you have to ask for forgiveness. There are times when you have to accept correction from others but it’s worth it in the end to know that you are living your life in a way that is pleasing to God and helpful to others.
SCRIPTURE MEDITATION
Proverbs 6:16-20
King James Version (KJV)
16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
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