"If you abide in My word, you are my disciples indeed.
And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." John 8:31-32
Sometimes the truth stares us right in the face and we look the other direction. You know what I mean? Jesus is right, the truth will set us free, but so often the truth also convicts us. The truth opens our doors, but sometimes only after we've suffered a bit for it. And that is often hard for us to deal with and so, we turn our face from the truth, living in the falseness instead.
We like our relationship just as it is thank you very much.
We like our job and its paycheck.
We like the way our church is running right now, no need to change it.
We are comfortable in our surroundings, no need to muck it all up and look with new eyes at old situations. Unfortunately that is exactly what Jesus call us to do, have eyes to see and ears to hear. I seem to be using that statement a fair amount of times over the course of these entries. I think that the reason I am is twofold, on the one hand I think it has become fairly obvious to me that I need to start having those new eyes and ears, and on the other side I think that if I have to learn it there are most likely other people who need to learn it as well.
And so...we need to open ourselves up to seeing and learning the truth, no matter what road that takes us down. It will be hard, certain things may be broken, but Jesus is able to make something beautiful from broken things.
+ What aspects of your life have you been looking away from truth in? why?
+ Are you willing to seek out the truth in your life no matter the consequences?
We like our relationship just as it is thank you very much.
We like our job and its paycheck.
We like the way our church is running right now, no need to change it.
We are comfortable in our surroundings, no need to muck it all up and look with new eyes at old situations. Unfortunately that is exactly what Jesus call us to do, have eyes to see and ears to hear. I seem to be using that statement a fair amount of times over the course of these entries. I think that the reason I am is twofold, on the one hand I think it has become fairly obvious to me that I need to start having those new eyes and ears, and on the other side I think that if I have to learn it there are most likely other people who need to learn it as well.
And so...we need to open ourselves up to seeing and learning the truth, no matter what road that takes us down. It will be hard, certain things may be broken, but Jesus is able to make something beautiful from broken things.
+ What aspects of your life have you been looking away from truth in? why?
+ Are you willing to seek out the truth in your life no matter the consequences?
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