Contemplative Bible Reading

Proverbs 6:12-13 (New Living Translation)

12 What are worthless and wicked people like?
They are constant liars,
13 signaling their deceit with a wink of the eye,
a nudge of the foot, or the wiggle of fingers.

Yikes! Here is a description of worthless and wicked people. First and foremost, they are constant liars. For some reason, they can’t tell the truth. Why not? I suppose there are a thousand reasons for each lie told by each “worthless and wicked” person. I don’t understand all the reasons.

Let’s simply start with, “You can tell the truth.”

We use the phrase, “I’ll be honest with you…” when we mean something like, “I’ll be candid with you.” I usually don’t explain all there is about this to people, but I will try to explain it to you. What is happening behind the scenes is such and such. This causes us to do such and such and that appears to be some other thing. So, out of fear or embarrassment or (and here is where all the thousand reasons appear), we don’t quite tell the truth.

Well, we can tell the truth. Let’s just do that. Let’s not be confused with “worthless and wicked” persons. Tell the truth. “This is what is happening. We mean well and our results don’t always match our intentions. Please be patient with us.”