Then Joshua
said to Achan, "My son, give glory to the Lord,
the God of Israel, and give him the praise. Tell
me what you have done; do not hide it from me."
Achan replied, "It is true! I have sinned
against the Lord, the God of Israel. This is
what I have done: When I saw in the plunder a
beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred
shekels of silver and a wedge of gold weighing
fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them.
They are hidden in the ground inside my tent,
with the silver underneath." Joshua 7:19-21
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Achan may have fooled the
Israelites but God knew what he was hiding
in his heart and in his tent. What would the
world be like if we were all perfectly
honest? What if we all had some sort of
honesty indicator that visibly let people
know when we were being less than truthful?
Would we wink at our friend when he is
telling a story about his catch during a
fishing trip? Would we smile at our child
when they told us that they didn't have any
idea how a favorite vase got broken? Would
our terminally ill parent understand when we
say, "Don't worry everything will be all
right."? As children of God, we must speak
the language of God, which is truth.
Anything less than the truth is a language
that someone else knows all too well. "You
belong to your father, the devil, and you
want to carry out your father's desire. He
was a murderer from the beginning, not
holding to the truth, for there is no truth
in him. When he lies, he speaks his native
language, for he is a liar and the father of
lies." John 8:44
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