Speak up

God gave us voices to be used. We speak what is important to us in both our words and our actions. When God created the universe, he spoke, and then it came into being (Genesis 1:3, 6, 11, 14, 20, 24). In each act and day of creation, there is no object that His voice is directed towards. When God created mankind - during day six (1:26) - He speaks to Himself: Let us create. We are designed for communication because we were created out of a conversation between God and Himself. When we speak, we do what we were created to do, when we stay silent about important things, we lose our value.

What you mention, you can manage.

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9

God knows we will sin, and He invites us into a conversation to heal us of our sin. Just as when God spoke the earth into existence, when we speak with God, it brings life back into us. Our lives are held together by the voice of God. When we listen to His voice we are made whole, and once we are made whole, we are compelled to speak the truth. When we know the truth and speak the truth, the more the truth will be meaningful to us. The more we repress the truth and attempt to keep it silent, the more susceptible we will be to believing lies.

Lying to yourself will lead you to accepting lies from others. 

More often than not, living a life of lies doesn’t come from without it bleeds from within. As we allow our voice to become silent, we often allow another voice to be heard - the voice of lies. Adam and Eve didn’t have to create lies for themselves to believe, they simply had to stop listening to the voice of God and a new voice appeared. We can avoid lies by tuning our ears to the truth and training ourselves to hear only what is true. God’s truth is what holds the inner fabric of our lives together. As we connect ourselves to God’s voice we are better equipped to determine what is truth and what is not in others. We have to keep listening for the truth and we have to keep speaking the truth. The lying voice waits for the voice of truth to be silent.