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By Gloria Pierre Dean
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“You are lying,” said Miss Harkness.“Everyone knows he wouldn't cheat, so why are you telling this falsehood?”
“Because I saw him in your office when he downloaded the answers from your laptop into his flash drive.”
Holly had seen Jimmy do the deed through the partially closed office door. She felt the need to report his act to the headmistress, so she did.
“But how did he get access to my password?” queried Miss Harkness in her mind.
“OK, Holly. Thanks for now. I'll look into it”
That night at the dinner table, Holly confided to her parents and they reassured her.
“You did the right thing, dear,” said Dad.
“You told the truth” added mum.
After a pause, Holly said “What is truth, Mom? When we watch the news, different stations say different divergent things about the same issues. It's so confusing.
Dad replied, “In my opinion, as The Bible says, only God is Truth. He never lies. He is Truth, Jesus is Truth and the Holy Spirit is The Spirit of Truth.”{Isaiah 65:16, John 14:6, 17. John 15:26}. The opposite of truth is lying. The devil is the father of lies {John 8:44}.
Holly responded, “It's very hard to always be truthful”
Little brother Mike piped in “I stole a cookie from the church fridge on Sunday and I felt so bad.” He paused, then said, “I went to see Miss Fay and told her”.
“Thank you Mike” she smiled “I forgive you. Ask God to forgive you too. I'm glad that you now have peace of mind”
That Sunday morning, Pastor’s sermon was entitled,
‘What is Truth?’ He included many truths;
“Our source of all truth is The Bible. It is the Word of God which He inspired Old Testament men like Moses, Prophets, New Testament scribes, and apostles to write; from Creation in Genesis, to Christ’s Return and the End Times in Revelation”.
He continued; “It takes faith to believe His Word. and in light of the anti-God and anti-Creation evolutionary theories that plague our world, we must know in our hearts what we believe. Thankfully, archaeological findings increasingly confirm what the Bible says.
Unfortunately, when leaders fail to follow God’s Truth, they lead their countries, peoples, and churches into moral failure. History is replete with such despotic ‘blind’ leaders who lead tyrannically.Their ideologies are based on lies. Fuhrers, kings, emperors, presidents, and terrorists. So, frequently, failing to love their neighbors and to love God, they do physical and mental harm, they may well rape and often kill at will.
In their thinking, The Truth of God is absent.
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“…The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness,.”
“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools. {Romans 1:18,20-22}
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(One critique, if I may: Pay close attention to 'point of view.' You have both Holly's feelings and Miss Harkness's thoughts in the first paragraph. Stick with one or the other. Or create a 'break' to switch point of view.)