One fine spring morning the Prince of Liars felt very pleased with himself.  He loved to tell lies and would do so at the drop of a hat.  He had told his mother earlier that he had a bad headache and so his mother told him to stay in bed until he was better.  Hooray!  His lie had worked and now he didn't have to go to school!

He grinned to himself when he thought of what he could do.  As soon as the front door shut and his Mom left for work, he jumped out of bed and got dressed in old clothes.  He was going to have the time of his life playing hooky from school.  He rushed out the back door and pulled his go-cart down the drive into the road outside their house.

Found Out!

He tried to push himself along, but it was no good.  The road was too flat and he needed a steep hill.  He thought for a moment.  Yes!  A little way past his school was another road and it was a steep hill.  And so he bent down to make himself as small as possible and then crept past his school hoping that no one would see him!

Little did he know it, it was break-time and several boys saw him and wondered what he was doing.  After break they told their teacher and she went to the Principal and reported what they had seen.

The Big Smash

In the meantime, the Prince of Liars was pushing his go-cart up the steep hill.  When he reached the top he stopped and wiped his brow.   This was hot work!  He climbed into his go-cart and gave it a hard push with his foot.  The wheels started turning and his cart gathered speed.  Soon he was flying.  He looked down the long steep hill which stretched on and on for at least a kilometre.  He suddenly realised that he would never be able to stop - he had no brakes!

He panicked as he reached his road and swung into it.  His go-cart wobbled wildly and tumbled over and over.  The Prince of Liars went flying into the air and skidded along the road.  He gingerly picked himself up and stared in dismay at blood dripping from his elbow and knees.

He limped off home pulling his broken cart.  His Mom found him groaning from pain when she got home.  She bathed his sores and put him to bed with no supper.  He was in trouble!

More Trouble!

The next day he was even deeper in trouble when the school principal called him into his office.  Lies did not help as the truth came out.  Punished at home and punished at school!  The Prince of Liars made up his mind never to lie again.  It just wasn’t worth it! I hope he read this verse in his Bible:

"A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit" (Matthew 7:18).

And what about you?  Do you like telling lies?  Or do you tell the truth and behave like a true King’s Kid?  Remember, we are the children of Almighty God and we have Jesus our Saviour living in our hearts.  Other people should see Jesus in you by the way you behave and talk.  Or, does your behaviour tell others that you are living a lie?

Are you a Prince of Liars, or a Prince of Truth?

 
God bless!

 
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