On the Truth and Lies and Living

Gary Cox said the degree to which you believe the truth is directly related to the degree to which you are free (from bitterness, rage, slander, lust, pick a slave master). I am reasonably sure that most people want to be free in this way- even those who do not believe in God at all. Maybe especially those who do not believe in God- for if you wanted to be the master of your own destiny, you certainly wouldn't want to be enslaved to your passions or addictions or any such thing. But that aside, it is true that the lies we believe (about ourselves and about the world) certainly do have an impact on us. May God give us grace to consider these things.