NOTES for Eph 4:25
Do we say the truth one of another? No, we understand that lying is not good, we reject lie - in theory. But practically we lie all the time. May be, we don’t speak scurrility lies, but to call as well what we say truth, the tongue tied.
Why is it so? Probably, we are just afraid. We are afraid of the reality, whom we really are, we are afraid if we don’t lie, everybody will see us, as naked, will receive a certain knowledge of us, and knowledge is strength, power. Lying is our self-defence. We use it, as clothes: to hide the vulnerable, indecent places, to embellish ourselves. "It is pretty not to lie - not to tell history".
We are also afraid of hearing the truth on ourselves. "We all prefer an elevating falsehood to dozens of unpleasant truths". It is better a man makes a mistake on our account, but speaks well of us.
Having become used to judge everything in ourselves, we are still afraid of telling to others the truth about them. We call it "lying to save", we say: "there are truths that are better not to say ".
So what results from all this? Lie and fear, fear and lie. And all this separates, and separates us one from another. The apostle Paul speaks to us so that we reject all these false motives: there can’t be false relations between the organs of the same body, a member can’t hand to another something unreal - all the body will ruin. It is difficult to say the truth? But maybe we shall nevertheless try?