Truth

"Spiritual warfare often means coming to grips with what we are thinking and weighing it against the truth of the Word of God.  You will be able to combat lies of the Enemy when you have God's word hidden in your heart.  This key to fighting and keeping the faith."


'Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable.  Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.'  Phillippians 4:8

'Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.'  John 8:32

How much of our lives are filled with untruth?  What do we set our minds on each day as we wake up and go about our tasks, our jobs, our relationships?  The very nature of truth leaves no room for exception.  When something is truth, there is no other alternative.  It cannot be true part of the time and at other times be false, for then it would not be true at all. 

It seems that Jesus speaks of truth and freedom together.  One leads to the other.  In truth, we are free.  How many times did Jesus speak truth and people were set free?  Free from disease, free from shame, free from guilt, free from humiliation, free from laws, free from sin.....What would our lives look like if we lived in total freedom?  He freed the Samaritan woman, He freed the leper, He freed the hemorrhaging woman, the criminal on the cross....He freed us from the Law.  In Him we are accepted and loved completely.  In perfect love, there is no fear.  No fear is itself freedom. 

What are we called to do that we ignore because we are not free?  What keeps us from unleashing all of ourselves to serve Him as He has called us?  It's a lack of freedom.  Maybe we are not free because we don't know the truth.  We don't know Him well enough to feel loved, to feel safe, to trust in Him, to take the first step.....

I pray that He would show us truth, so that we can live life freely, so that we can experience things and people that we are currently ignoring and letting pass by us.

"The moment you wake up each morning, all you wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in." --Mere Christianity

"What Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they could...be their own masters--invent some sort of happiness for themselves apart from God. And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history...the long, terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."--Mere Christianity