John, 14;2 makes it clear that there is a place in Heaven where each soul may attain its maximum joy and fulfillment. We hope we are obedient and faithful enough to get there.
We know we cannot get to the place that awaits us in His Kingdom if we lie. If we do so, we renounce our Father in Heaven, and become children of the father of lies. Each of his lies is an idol in the pantheon of fraud. We go through life amidst clouds of lies, each of which is the halo surrounding the idol within.
Yesterday, lies about “liberty, equality, and fraternity” enthroned the lie that the men who ran the guillotines were concerned about justice. Today, lies concern a “better, safer world for all.” From the polar bears at the North Pole to the ozone hole at the South, those who pretend to care about the environment enshrine their newest idols.
The souls who embrace those lies are, in some spiritual way, “de-polarized”. They leave truth and light for darkness and pain.
There are no mansions in the home to which they go. Only misery and pain awaits those who use their time on earth to hurt others.
We hope that our prayer, including “lead us not into temptation” will provide admittance to a mansion, rather than the cheap, vile boarding house run by pain-inflicting maniacs to which we will otherwise be sent.
