No honour when honesty goes out the window!

 

So as you know, my husband Chris has been in hospital recently. In ED he had various tests and later on an MRI to find out why his eyes are crossed.

After 4 days in hospital, he was given an MRI. This was done late Friday afternoon and we knew there would be no answers of the results until Monday.

All Monday we waited for the MRI results. But each time we were told the report had not been written up and they were just waiting for that to happen and then Chris would be discharged

During the day Chris was seen by many medical people who all told us they didn't know what the MRI showed.  This was later proven to be a lie.

Around midday a pharmacist in the hospital came in to see Chris. She was going through his list of new medications to prepare for his discharge.

She explained that he was to start on a new statin which was triple the dosage of what he had taken before. She added that this was necessary to make sure that he didn't have another stroke.

Straight away I  interjected, "Are you saying that he has had a stroke?!"  She spluttered and said she didn't know as she hadn't seen the MRI report! Later that day, the discharging doctor came in to tell us that he had had a stroke in his cerebellum.

It was not a bleed but a blockage caused by plaque from his high cholesterol. I knew then that they had lied to us and had seen the MRI hours before we were told. I was livid!

Whilst delighted that Chris was coming home, I was angry that the pharmacist and doctors had lied to us. When one's very life is in the hospital's hand and knowing how anxious a time it was, we never thought for a minute that we would be lied to.

As a Christian, I value truth. In fact, lying or being lied to is anathema to me. If our word isn't true, how can we trust someone? on what do we place our judgement? how can one have confidence in a liar? 

Once one has been found out to be a liar, the basis for trust and confidence is gone. Furthermore, if someone is known to worship the LORD Who is Truth, how can He be honoured by His followers telling untruths?

Lying is a serious thing, for there is no honour when honesty goes out the window!  

© Glenys Robyn Hicks

‘Lord, who may abide in your tabernacle? Who may dwell in your holy hill? He who walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart; He who does not backbite with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbour, not does he take up a reproach against his friend; in whose eyes a vile person is despised, but he honours those who fear the LORD. He who swears to his own hurt and does not change; he who does not put out his money at usury, nor does he take a bribe against the innocent, he who does these things shall never be moved’. Psalm 15.