Devotional Guide for the Week of October 16, 2022

1.     Notice the progression of feedback the spies gave to Moses and the people:

A truth; a conflation of the truth and a lie; and a downright lie

2.     There are what M. Scott Peck calls “People of the lie”

“While they (people of the lie) seem to lack any motivation to be good, they intensely desire to appear good. Their “goodness” is all on a level of pretense. It is, in effect, a lie. That is why they are the “people of the lie.”

 3.     There is a difference between a “sin” and evil

“While some people lie because they are lazy but not evil, others are in fact, evil. Those who are evil are masters of disguise; they are not apt to wittingly disclose their true colors—either to others or to themselves. The evil always hide their motives with lies. (104) “Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. They hate goodness because it reveals their badness; they hate love because it reveals their laziness. They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of such self-awareness.”