Truth

'And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free' -John 8:32

This verse is one of my favorite verses in the Bible...so simple yet it states a promise that the truth makes or sets (in other translations) us free. Arriving at the truth is the issue. So many of us are blinded by the truth in our everyday lives. We are running around like crazy to the point that sometimes we either don't recognize the truth or we just dont want to face it. More often than not, it's the latter. Not wanting to face the truth---but why? It's supposed to make us free. Yes because the truth hurts. When we take those few seconds to stop and realize that the situation, relationship, job, or whatever it may be is not for us, it hurts. It hurts our pride and it makes us question everything in life. It's the truth that what we have become so used to whatever it is, we know that with that truth we're about to lose it. There's a fear of loss and failure that comes along with finding out the truth.

But it's the truth and it makes me free. Freedom. When we finally let go of whatever it is...we feel relief...that relief is freedom from whatever binds us, the veil is lifted. In the short term, as we gain our freedom from whatever...we deal with the mourning stages of what we just lost, wishing that somehow we still have it again. As time goes by we get stronger...looking back we realize that we were truly bonded...slaves to the thing that kept us from seeing the light. St. John speaks thoroughly in his gospel and epistles about light and darkness...
ex. 1 John 1: 6-7: "If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

wow. you know we also have to remember in finding the truth, facing it and acting upon it....that everything will be okay....God has amazing promises and I really can't count how many in the bible but here are some of them:

'So I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you' - Joshua 1:5
'Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go'- Joshua 1:9
'The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace' -Exodus 14:14
'For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope'-Jeremiah 29:11

Those are just some...so many more I can post....but when you do encounter a 'truth' in your life...know that God is knocking on your door, asking for you to change and to come to that truth. That truth is for your benefit, not destruction. It's out of love, not hate and more importantly it's essential for your salvation. So I pray that God reveals the truths in our everyday lives so that we may live in the truth of Light and spread it others.