Lies

There are only a few people I let speak into my life. There are things on TV that I just don't watch. There are friends who I hang around all the time and do not take there advice, I love them, but that is not their role in my life. I had one friend I would tell my problems to and I would literally do the opposite of whatever she told me to do... and guess what, it always worked out. Always. Something as simply as a friend can be much more than that, that relationship can control the decisions you make, the people you talk to, the places you go...the people you listen to can almost determine your life without you even knowing what happen.

There is something that is even more dangerous than a friend...is a boy/girl friend. Yes, I meant dangerous. Someone that you trust more than anyone else in your life. The one that you talk to most and spend the most time with. What they say has more of an influence on you than anyone else in your life; your best friend, your family,...pastor,TV(and we know that tube speaks volumes).

I was talking to one of my campers not to long ago during the "great" campfire encounter and we talked about the whispers. She was telling me that she was a bad Christian.She said she was not trying hard enough and that she could always be doing better. She went on, and on and on about all the things she could do better. And I started telling her about the whispers of Satan. How he wants to get into her head and focus on the "to do's" of following Jesus and that is not what a relationship with the Father is.

Then I got home. I feel like that Lord is calling me back here. The one thing He has been repeating to me is Lies...Lies...Lies. It is so easy to believe lies. Especially when they are all you are listening to. I come back to find my friends and family stuck eyeball deep in lies and they don't want to listen to anything else. Nothing else can get to them.

Why? What is so appealing about the lie?