Dishonesty is inconsistent with a loving relationship. Who can trust a cheating heart? - Dishonesty - TouchPoints

Dishonesty is inconsistent with a loving relationship. Who can trust a cheating heart?

James 5:4-5For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. The cries of those who harvest your fields have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. You have spent your years on earth in luxury, satisfying your every desire. You have fattened yourselves for the day of slaughter.

Dishonesty takes advantage of others.

Genesis 27:12What if my father touches me? He’ll see that I’m trying to trick him, and then he’ll curse me instead of blessing me.

Habakkuk 2:9-10“What sorrow awaits you who build big houses with money gained dishonestly! You believe your wealth will buy security, putting your family’s nest beyond the reach of danger. But by the murders you committed, you have shamed your name and forfeited your lives.

Dishonesty results in fear and shame. We fear we will be discovered and our character revealed.

Proverbs 20:23The Lord despises double standards; he is not pleased by dishonest scales.

Dishonesty causes a person to be untrustworthy and untrusting. Dishonesty eventually makes one unable to know himself or relate to others. Double standards are no standards at all.

1 Samuel 15:13When Samuel finally found him, Saul greeted him cheerfully. “May the Lord bless you,” he said. “I have carried out the Lord’s command!”

Dishonesty can begin to seem like the truth over time. By believing our own lies, we deceive ourselves, alienate ourselves from God, and lose credibility in our relationships. When we deceive ourselves, we lose our ability to find the truth.