Are “Little White Lies” little and White?

© 2015 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

 

(E. coli bacteria in a Petri dish)

I’ve often heard folks try to justify lies by calling them “little white lies.”  If we compare the contamination of truth to the contamination of drinking water, “little white lies” are like little E. coli bacteria.  The problem with both is that they tend to multiply.  In either case, small quantities of pollution lead to really nasty results.

God doesn’t make a distinction between big lies and “little white lies.”  He just calls them all lies, and prescribes severe consequences for them.

“But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death” (Revelation 21:8).

Notice that God doesn’t give any exemption for those who tell only “little white lies.”  The dire consequences are prescribed for “all liars.”

Have you ever told a lie of any kind?  Sadly, so have I.  Does this mean that there is no hope for us, and that we must all be condemned to the lake of fire?

Thankfully, even though this is what we all deserve, God has provided great mercy for those who repent of their sins and cry out to Him for forgiveness.  Jesus Christ, God the Son, came to live as the perfect, sinless human being, and then offered Himself as a blood sacrifice for the sins of His people.

Speaking to Christians who had come to Christ, in faith, the apostle Paul wrote:

“And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;  Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:  Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.  But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,  Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)” (Ephesians 2:1-5).

Have you repented and asked Christ to save you from your “little white lies,” or are they still rushing you downward to your final judgment?

 

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