And here's the thing, it's fun to lie to yourself.
It's fun to pretend that you're doing everything right in your life.
If your life is a mess right now,
the fun thing is to say, well, I didn't do anything wrong.
I mean, everything I'm doing is right.
Anybody can look on the outside and see all these problems.
But people like to lie to themselves like, why did everything correct?
People mess up their lives and all the evidence is there.
Everything's right in front.
But they do not want to admit I'm at fault.
I mean, it's a humbling thing to say, I'm sorry I messed up, isn't it?
In the Bible, we have King Saul, the tallest man in the land.
And he started off so humble, but he was not willing to say,
you know what, I messed up, I'm at fault.
And here's the thing, he got no mercy from God.
Then you've got this other guy, King David,
and what he did was so much worse than King Saul.
But when he was rebuked, he said, you know what, I messed up.
I'm sorry, I did wrong.
What's the result? God showed mercy.
If you observe lying vanities in your life,
you will forsake the mercy that God would have given you.