Genesis 2:4b-9, 15-17
Mark 7:14-23
How many of you
have heard of NBC news anchor Brian Williams?
Here’s a guy who
should have taken Jesus’ Gospel message today to heart.
Brian told a big
lie. He perpetrated deceit. And got
caught doing it.
Here’s how the
story began over a decade ago.
No lying here.
Straight-forward journalism. But fast-forward 10-years and the story changed.
Brian Williams was forced to apologize on the NBC Nightly News last week after a soldier onboard the actual helicopter hit by enemy fire said, “Hey dude, you weren’t on my helicopter.”
Now many of Brian
Williams’ stories from the news trenches are being called into question. Did he
lie about those, too?
Did he lie about seeing
bodies floating through the French Quarter while covering Hurricane Katrina in
New Orleans ten years ago? Did he lie about Iran’s President telling him
personally that the leader didn’t want an arsenal of nuclear weapons?
His trustworthiness
is now in question.
The news anchor
and managing editor of the NBC Nightly News is now suspended from the airwaves for six months without pay. That will cost him six-million dollars.
His future as America’s number-one news anchor is now in jeopardy.
And all because he
didn’t tell the truth.
As Jesus said,
“but (‘all these evils’) that come from within are what defile… evil thoughts,
unchastity, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit…” The list goes on.
What wicked webs
we humans weave with our human behavior when not in full communion with our God.
As we heard in
Genesis, we are created in the likeness of God. We are created for truth. We
are NOT created for lies.
Wasn’t it a lie
that got Adam and Eve banished from the Garden of Eden after they told God they
didn’t eat fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
It’s a choice
Jesus knew each person must face DAILY: To live in the light of God; to
live in a world of truth. Or to live in
the shadows of evil; to live in a world of lies.
What choice will
you make?
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