Let Your Yes Be Yes

Here we go again. So the movie Easy A become available on netflix instant watch so I figured why not. It was surprisingly better than I thought it was going to be and there were lessons to be had all throughout the movie. The one I am going to focus on this time is lying but first let me give you a preview of what the movie is about so that you can have some understanding of what I am talking about. Again this is a blog about movies if you don't want me to ruin the movie I recommend watching it first.

The movie is about a girl in high school who has never been noticed besides by her current friends. When given the chance she makes up a story about a college student she lost her virginity to. Of course this being a movie and high school, the rumor spreads like a wildfire and she goes from being invisible to being known by the entire school. Eventually this led to her creating stories about having sex with people when she really wasn't. The stories helped all the other people around her but she was becoming the person no one wanted to know. Towards the end she finally figured out that now that everyone knows her she feels more alone than ever before because she is hated by everyone.

Long story short, if you keep lying to others eventually those lies will turn on you. In this case the movie turned out to have a happy ending with everything being resolved but life is not always so nice. The lesson that I am taking away from this, well more of reinstating is that of a very common piece of scripture.

"All you need to say is simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one."
Matthew 5:37 NIV

 It is quite simple but in today's society seems one of the hardest to put in place. For as long as I can remember I have seen the media flooded with shows and movies about people who live lies, maybe being a secret agent, affairs, etc... and I think it has an effect on how easy it is for us to lie. It always starts small like saying that you brushed your teeth when you didn't or other similar things that we say when we are younger but the more we get away with the easier it becomes.

Here is a news flash, God knows when you lie and I can tell you he hates it when you try and lie to him. God knows everything you do before you do it so you might as well start with just talking truth to him. Let your yes be yes and your no be no. If you tell God you are going to change then do it.

Lets go backwards on this. Start small with God until it becomes a habit to tell the truth. Start with telling God everything since he already knows it. I guarantee that we have all told lies even if it is clicking the maybe button on facebook event just because you don't want to put no. We do it so easily that now a day we have to add extra words to what we say in order for people to try and believe us. Words like promise have little meaning when we shouldn't have to say them in the first place. So lets go back to the beginning and start a new habit of telling the truth all the time. Do it so often that telling a lie no matter how small feels wrong. How awesome would it be to live in a world what people said is actually what they meant.

This goes hand in hand with my last blog about destroying your surrogate and being who you are. Be truthful with God and your relationship will grow with him. When you start talking the truth you realize how easy it is to go to God and if you start with that you can then move to your friends here on earth. This being that you are having problems with lying. I don't mean obsessive lying but the little lies we tell all the time like telling someone you will be somewhere and not show up. It is the little lies that stack up until we realize that we have no friends that will believe what we say or can rely on us. There is no worse than feeling alone. God will never turn his back on you but don't throw it in his face.

Lets finish up with a recap. This post was based on lies that happened in the movie  Easy A which is not a movie that you have to see but if you having nothing else to watch on netflix instant watch then I would say go ahead. The lesson to take away is to let your yes be yes and your no be no in that your words should be exactly what you mean to say. Lets start by talking truth with God since he already knows it anyways and go from them their until it becomes habit to always tell the truth and not to tell those little lies that will eventually stack up and stab you in the back. Strengthen your relationship with God, then move on to your family and friends. It is better to be known for who you are then who you are not.