Lies

BELIEF
"How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?"
‭‭Numbers‬ ‭23:8‬ ‭

"And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether. And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the Lord hath put in my mouth?"
‭‭Numbers‬ ‭23:11-12‬

"God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?"
‭‭Numbers‬ ‭23:19‬ ‭

I don't believe you. Not because what you say is not true. I don't believe in you. I don't want to.
Why?

This thought process happens
more often than we want to admit.

It goes with the idea of human relationships. How they are established and how they are sustained.

The professor told the class that certain "population groups" are given to telling lies, a lot. Addicts. Sociopaths. It's amazing how many different words we come up with for the one BIBLE WORD: sinner !

"For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged."
‭‭Romans‬ ‭3:3-4‬ ‭

We like to try explaining stuff.
Preachers don't always explain stuff. Teachers do. The bible says: "Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people." ◄ Matthew 4:23 ►

The idea of "not believing in" may be captured in the word UNBELIEF.
This word is used a lot in the bible , especially in the Old Testament.



FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Who will "believe in you"
even if you lie a lot ?

What if you never lied
yet you are never believed ?

What hope is there for
the sociopath, addict - sinner?

Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee. Exodus 4:1

Psalm 78:19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? 21Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel; 22Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

Jude 1:5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

PRAYING LIKE THIS:
"And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief." - ‭Mark‬ ‭9:24‬ ‭

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