Remove Lies From Your Mind

You have lies in your mind.
These lies have stolen much of your joy and blessings.
Here’s the problem: You don’t know they’re lies.

My friend priest told me this hilarious story.

One day, a priest saw a group of kids surrounding a dog. Curious, he came over and asked, “What are you doing?” One kid said, “Father, we’re arguing as to who would own this stray dog. We all want him. So we decided that the one who can say the biggest lie would take home the dog.” The priest shook his head and said, “That’s wrong! Do you know that lying is bad? It’s against the commandments of God. Do you know that when I was your age, I never told a single lie?” For a moment, there was silence. All the kids looked very sad. The priest was happy. He felt his message hit home. Finally, the smallest boy said, “Okay, no one can beat that. Give him the dog.”


The First Lie I Ever Told



I remember the first lies I ever said. I was in Grade 3. One day, I opened the classroom door, not knowing my classmate was right behind it. The door hit his forehead, and blood flowed down his face, all the way to his white polo uniform. He looked like a victim in a horror movie. That was when my teacher arrived on the scene. And she screamed, “Who did this?” There I was, still holding the door knob, and with a shaking voice, said, “Not me!”

I remember how terrible I felt that day.

If you ever told a lie before, you know the feeling. Suddenly, you don’t feel at peace. (Obviously, I’m disqualifying chronic liars. They’ve deadened their conscience and feel nothing.) Let me tell you why we lose our peace. Because God is truth. And when we speak untruth, we move away from God. You move away from the one who said, “Peace be with you.” Lying isn’t worth it. Inner peace leaves you. And your relationships are affected. Because relationships are based on trust—which is based on truth. More so, you can’t even have a great relationship with yourself because you lose respect for yourself. But let me talk about a different kind of lying.

When We Lie To Ourselves

One day, I was preaching about the power of our words. I asked my audience to say out loud, “I’m beautiful!” We laughed and had so much fun. After the talk, I saw a young woman waiting for me at the foot of the stage. I noticed that physically, she was stunningly beautiful. She had lovely eyes, but when I looked at them, I sensed deep sadness. She asked me, “Brother Bo, if one says, ‘I’m beautiful’,but she feels ugly, isn’t she lying?” I already knew she was talking about herself. I asked, “Why do you think you’re ugly?” She told me her story.


When she was a little child, her father would tell her, “Dorothy, you’re ugly.” And he’d laugh the meanest laugh. He’d tease her again and again. Most of the time, he was drunk when he did this. And she said, “Ever since, I’ve always felt ugly. You were telling us on stage to say, ‘I’m beautiful’! I couldn’t say it. I felt I’d be lying…”

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