Sometimes people tell us something about ourselves that just is not true, yet we believe the lie. I can’t possibly be the only one this has happened to, right? We can go years…decades….lifetimes believing these lies we were told by people who were important to us. We incorporate insensitive remarks into our psyches. And isn’t it refreshing when someone stops you during your umpteenth self-denigrating comment and says “Now, wait a minute. That is simply untrue.” I have a dear friend who has a habit of saying things like “Well, you know….I’m NOT the sharpest knife in the drawer.” It simply is not true. How can one read 500 page books, dry stuff like Genghis Kahn, and be even remotely stupid? I want to yell at my friend and say “Stop it! You’re beautiful! You are perfect!”

The other day, I was relaying something someone had said to me that I had believed. It had occurred many years before and I had bought into the lie. My friend called me on it and did what friends do. Tell the truth. I was a little taken aback. We hear the bad stuff so long we can’t believe the good stuff. We have to unlearn the lies. It isn’t easy. What are those outrageous lies you tell yourself? Recognize them….then unlearn them.

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“Not a word from their mouth can be trusted; their heart is filled with malice. Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they tell lies.”

Psalm 5:9