RVEALING & REMOVING

“Save me, O Lord, from lying lips.” Ps 120:2 NIV

Armand Hammer died at ninety-two. USA Today once called him “a giant of capitalism and confidant of world leaders.” That was his reputation, but not his character. After his death, the truth became known. Harvard-educated political scientist Edward Epstein wrote Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer, in which he reported that Hammer got his start laundering money for the Soviet government, then hired ghostwriters to write fictitious autobiographies of his life. He got more money through a string of broken marriages. He allowed his father, who was a physician, to go to prison for a botched abortion Hammer himself had performed. He neglected his only son. He had no friends at Occidental Petroleum where “he fired his top executives as though they were errand boys.” When his brother Victor died, he filed a claim of $667,000 against the $700,000 estate, rather than dispersing it to Victor’s children and nursing home-bound wife. When Hammer died, his son Julian did not attend his funeral. Neither did the members of his two brothers’ families. And neither did anyone else. His pallbearers were his chauffeur, his male nurse, and other personal employees.

The Psalmist, who was acutely aware of his own shortcomings, wrote, “Save me, O Lord, from lying lips.” When you pray this way, get ready for God to do two things:

(1) Reveal. God will pinpoint areas of your life that you must deal with.
(2) Remove. Some things will be taken away. Will it be quick or easy? Probably not. But God will strengthen you until these battles are won and the character of Christ is revealed in you.
(From the book "Word 4u 2day")