WHEN IS A LIE NOT A LIE?

So, here I am sittting on the side of my bed, and a commercial comes on that catches my ears. I looked, and there are two little girls between the ages of three and six. They are curiously watching their mommy apply a cream on her face. One of them pipes up and said,"Mommy why are you putting that cream on your face"?  "Oh to make me look younger", she replied. The next frame shows: The two girls with a container , a spatula and something or other in their tiny and  precious little hands; and they are applying this cream quite thickly on the face of an old man asleep on the couch.As the old man stirs in his sleep, the pasty substance is smeared on the arm and the back of the couch,where his head lays. The younger blurted out with much glee, "Grandpa is going to be sooo happy when he wakes up!"

Oh such trusting innocence to believe that mommy told them the truth and wanted to share that secret of youth  with their sleeping grandpa . Whether it it works or not, grandpa is going to be so surprise!

The commercial is cute, but, it spiraled into a lesson of deception. For we know that a mother would be the very last person who would deceive their children intentionally. Children naturally show dependence on their parents, so we as parents should respect that trusting attitude with our gratitude, with total truth.   James 3:13-17 teaches that  we should not boast and lie against the truth. This kind of  wisdom do not come from God. If we want our little ones to have good conduct and morals in everything that they do or say, then we need not to teach deception and hypocrisy. True wisdom is unpretentious. For when it is not the truth, then it is untrue. When we speaks things that are untrue, then it is a lie. So then, When is a lie not a lie? When it is the truth!


          Suffer the little children to come unto me, for such as is the kingdom of heaven. Mk. 10:14