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2 Choosing to disobey

This is straight forward, Thou shall not lie, and we lie anyway.

One day I was flat ironing my hair and I got up to leave the room for a while. When I returned I saw that a plastic place mat which I was using was burnt. I assumed that it may have happened because the heat from the iron had scorched it.

However, when I resumed ironing my hair I felt the iron was sticking a bit in my hair. I then noticed a piece of plastic stuck inside the iron. I immediately called my sons from the next room and began my interrogation.

Both boys (with straight faces) denied having done the deed. I asked several times, each time looking for signs that someone was cracking. By the third time I asked, I could see my older son's body language was screaming "It was me, it was me ...I did it!!!" but his mouth still denied.

I put them to sit and think about the situation.
Have you ever felt like God has put you in a time out?
After some time I called to my son and simply told him that it would be best if he admitted what he had done instead of lying since delaying would only cause his punishment to be greater.

The longer we stay in sin, the more consequences we eventually have to face. My son was disobedient in touching the iron, which he was not allowed to do, and to compound that, he tried to lie his way out of being caught.
Sin breeds sin.

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