#Lies, lies and more lies seem to be filling our air ways today!  How can you decern #truth from error?   I was an only child, yet I had a very large extented family of aunts, uncles, and cousins who exchanged eventful encounters via conversations over meal time get-togethers.  One such episode about me, I heard repeated too many times!  At the age of  three,  I  had been playing in the backyard with my three cousins when I came into the kitchen to ask my aunt for some water.  She said, ” what are y’all playing?”  I proceeded to fill her in…”Well, you see, I am playing with a very large elephant that lets his trunk down for me to sit and then he puts me up on his back …so I really need some water!”  Aunt Hen looked at me and said, “Barbara Ruth, if you keep telling those whoppers the boogie man’s gonna get you!”  Without skipping a sip, I said, “I’ve told a bunch of um and he ain’t got me yet.”  No, not one of my crowing moments!   Family, friends, God and His Holy Word have tempered my heart to tell the truth. Col.3:9 “Do not lie to one another since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices”   Have you grown into a truthful individual that others can believe what you say?  Is it important to be a truthful person?  Just as men swear an oath to confirm their truth, God desires to show His heirs the unchangeable purpose guaranteed by His oath recorded in Heb. 6:16-20 “It is IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD TO LIE “   Lessons I learned as a child are even more vital today when lies and truth are hidden by the cold blooded evil serpent twisting good for evil.  Who can you trust that is telling the truth?  Ps.119:160 “GOD’S WORD IS TRUTH”  Deut.32:3,4 “I will proclaim (publish) the name of the LORD:  ascribe greatness unto our God.  HE is the Rock, His work is perfect:  for all His ways are judgment:  GOD of TRUTH and without iniquity, JUST and RIGHT IS HE.”