Billy Joel’s famous hit song “Honesty” is one of my favorite songs. It reveals how lonely this virtue reigns in this world packed with hypocrisy.
A number of people make believe that there are moments when it is better to conceal the truth to save a face, to maintain a government, to uphold security. How morbid these motives are and how ironic these evil tactics lurk.
Woe to the man who condones the wrong doings of another to gain societal acceptance. Salvation is far to him who intentionally tolerates dishonesty in exchange of material possessions. For doesn’t God speak to us through His Book that we gain no profit if we gain outward respect and richness if we lose our dear soul?
I cannot grasp why one has to support for a goverment leader who manipulates citizens’ taxes for his personal ambition. In the end he dies and brings neither fame nor glory when he goes to the other side. Even his family who are the rightful heirs of an unrightful wealth will definitey suffer because money cannot bless a family and a generation who is part of a grave corruption. Neither can I comprehend why one has to deny the truth about poverty in exchange of claimed economic uprise.How tragic the outcome I forsee. The devil’s laughters defeaned me. He triumphs every lie that we tell. Lying, no matter how little it may seem, is always a SIN.
I remember a lie I made to save a cousin. In the end, I lost the trust of an uncle and an aunt I truly love and from then on, I vowed never ever to lie.
Honesty helps our spirit to be reconciled with the Lord. Let’s choose honesty over dishonesty and the Prince of Lies 2 will definitely be defeated once we decide to uphold what is true. Honesty deletes mistrust ; let’s make it our virtue.