One of the boys replied, "This dog is just an old neighborhood stray. We all want him, but only one of us can take him home. So we've decided that whichever one of us can tell the biggest lie

will get to keep the dog."

Of course, the priest was taken aback.

"You boys shouldn't be having a contest telling lies!" he exclaimed. He then launched into a ten minute sermon against lying, beginning,

"Don't you boys know it's a sin to lie," and ending with, "Why, when I was your age, I never told a lie."

There was dead silence for about a minute. 

Just as the priest was beginning to think

he'd gotten through to them,

the smallest boy gave a deep sigh and said,

"All right, give him the dog."*

 

God does not like us to tell lies to each other.

Any lie will not go free. Let's hear the God's lesson:

Proverbs 19:5
A false witness will not go unpunished,

and he who pours out lies will not go free.

Colossians 3:9
Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices