Some years ago an Australian army vehicle went missing. The industrial military transporter was worth over £70,000. Amusingly it was lost just after it had been camouflaged…
I kid you not.
Sometimes we try to hide things from our friends, families and even ourselves. We get so good at pretending that we actually can’t remember how we really feel about certain things.
Recent research by a website for new mothers claimed that most young mums feel they have to lie about the way they are parenting in order to fit in with those around them. Most mums allow their children to watch far more TV than they come clean about. They also give them more ready-made junk food. But in front of their friends, they say “Jocasta and I spent the morning making a volcano out of eggboxes before downing some Tofu and home-made sushi.”
(They reality is that little Jocasta watched two hours of Cbeebies and ate half a packet of Orios, followed by a garage-bought chicken sandwich for lunch.)

Why do we lie?
What does lying do for us?

I think we often lie to make ourselves feel better, or to let ourselves off the hook. The thing is God is never duped, even if our friends are. There is a beautiful, if rather frightening verse in the Bible that says:

“The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance but God looks at the heart.”

(I Samuel 16:7)

We can’t fool God, or hide from Him. Even in the lowest depths of our lives, He knows where we are and is there too.