Devotional Time with Rev. Jacob

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally some form of artistic mark to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Peterson, Jordan B.  12 Rules for Life: an antidote to chaos . Great Britain: Penguin Random House, 2018. Rule 8: Tell the Truth – Or, At Least, Don’t Lie, pp. 209- 211 Opening Thought: Often when we talk about lying, we simply mean making a false claim which is untrue, as one might if they were lying in court, or how teenagers tend to lie about the reasons they are late for their curfews. We all tend to feel, from time to time, that spinning a web is easier than telling the truth, but it is hardly every case, if ever. The interesting thing about Peterson's ...

  This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally some form of artistic mark to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Peterson, Jordan B.  12 Rules for Life: an antidote to chaos . Great Britain: Penguin Random House, 2018. Rule 8: Tell the Truth – Or, At Least, Don’t Lie, pp. 201- 209 Opening Thought: The first few pages of this 8 th rule are made up of a few milestones in Peterson's development where he discovered the fundamental value of truthfulness. Peterson discovered, what many often believe but never put into practice, that lying does not promote anything good. Lying is “taking the easy way out” [1] , and often this is a short-term easy solution, it sacrific...