{"id":573,"date":"2015-03-02T09:51:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T09:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2015-03-06T04:22:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T04:22:40","slug":"573","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"The Lying Cereal Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Lying Cereal Box<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“Can you get the prize out for me?” Greta eagerly asked her father. She pointed to<\/p>\n

a picture on the back of her cereal box. It showed a huge pile of colorful candy<\/p>\n

pouring out of a package.<\/p>\n

“Well, let’s see if we can find it,” said Dad. He shook the box, tipped it this way<\/p>\n

and that, then reached in and pulled out the prize–a small, sample-size package of<\/p>\n

candy. He tossed it to Greta. “Save it till after breakfast,” he said.<\/p>\n

When Greta tore open the package a little later, a few small pieces of candy fell<\/p>\n

out. She counted them–only three. She counted the pieces in the picture on the<\/p>\n

cereal box. There were 20. “I thought I’d get as much candy as the picture shows,” she<\/p>\n

complained to her dad.<\/p>\n

“The cereal company wanted you to think you’d get a lot so you’d persuade<\/p>\n

someone to buy the cereal for you,” explained Dad. “They deceived you.”<\/p>\n

Greta frowned. “What does deceive’ mean?”<\/p>\n

“It means to get someone to believe something that isn’t true,” explained Dad.<\/p>\n

That afternoon, Greta’s friend Molly came to play. Greta had recently begun taking<\/p>\n

piano lessons, and she showed Molly what she had been learning. “That looks like<\/p>\n

fun! Let’s pretend you’re the teacher and I’m your student,” suggested Molly.<\/p>\n

“Greta! Telephone!” called Dad.<\/p>\n

The caller was Kaylie, who lived a few doors away. “Play? At my house?” asked<\/p>\n

Greta after listening a moment. “Well . . . uh . . .” Greta chose her words carefully.<\/p>\n

“I’m in the middle of a piano lesson,” she said. “Uh . . . sure. Some other time.”<\/p>\n

Dad frowned as Greta hung up. “Did you tell Kaylie the truth?”<\/p>\n

Greta shrugged. “I didn’t lie.”<\/p>\n

“What did Kaylie understand about the piano lesson?” persisted Dad. “Do you<\/p>\n

think you deceived her?”<\/p>\n

Greta blushed. She knew the picture she’d given was just as deceiving as the picture<\/p>\n

on the cereal box. She’d gotten Kaylie to think her piano teacher was there. “I’m sorry,”<\/p>\n

said Greta. “I’ll call her back and see if she wants to come and play piano lessons,’ too.”
\nHOW ABOUT YOU?<\/strong>
\nHave you ever been deceived\u2014been given the wrong idea\u2014by someone? Do you ever deceive other people? Deception is allowing someone to believe something that isn\u2019t true. There are other ways to lie besides just saying something that isn\u2019t true, and all of them are wrong. Speak honest words, but live an honest life, too.<\/p>\n

TODAY’S KEY VERSE:<\/strong> Leviticus 19:11 (KJV)<\/a><\/strong>
\nYou shall not . . . lie to one another.<\/p>\n

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