“An honest witness tells the truth; a false witness tells lies.”

Last week, another well-known business executive fell.  David Tovar, VP of Corporate Communications for Wal-Mart resigned because he had lied since 1996 that he had a degree from the University of Delaware.  For all of these years, he knew and had many opportunities to not only fess up, but also to clean it up by taking the few hours he had left to complete the degree.  But, he didn’t and it all came to an end and as a corporate communications executive, well, it gets worse.  We’d like to think we can count on everyone in our companies to be honest, but as this proves again, we can’t.  It’s important to always be realistic and ready for when a fault line appears.

We are called on to be honest and to not cut any corners.  It is what it is and when we aren’t we run counter to the example of living in the walk of Christ.  Work gives us many opportunities to shade the truth.  But, we can’t.  I’ve written about it many times, but we can’t be reminded enough that our little white lie is a big ugly thunderstorm of deceit in the eyes of others.

Reference: Proverbs 12:17 (New Living Translation)