"The Truth Will Set You Free."...Really?

John 8:32 "Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”  Why does this concept seem so lost in our time, even by Christians?  Is it just that we don't understand what "truth" is?  Have we been so deceived and tainted by it all?  Or are we just hard of hearing?

One week ago today, I think I broke my toe.  I would like to note, I tolerate pain well, very well.  Probably better than I should for my own good.  I knew and had been told by other people in the medical field, that if it is just the pinky toe broken, nothing would be done.  So I decide to give it 24 hours even though my toe was throbbing and I was trying to numb the pain with continuous icing.  The next day my foot was pretty swollen, tender, and bruised.  I went to the employee clinic to have a professional check it out, just in case there was a fracture in my foot.  At which point I told the PA, my pain was so bad on the first day I would rather give child birth, thinking he might send me for an x-ray.  He proceeded to look at it and tell me the same thing...if it is broken, nothing will be done about it.  He also stated that we have to go through a little pain to build up tolarance. Which I again clarified to him, I have a high tolerance to pain and would have rather given birth.  Looking back, I think maybe I should have lifted up a poster that said, "Here's your sign!"

Jesus was transparent.  He had no hidden agendas, no deep pockets.  He did not hide his tears or his fears.  Do we as Christians do the same?  When someone bears their heart and soul, do we judge or do we love by showing the compassion of Christ?  Do we say to them, you have to go through a little pain to build up tolarance?  Or maybe we say, I would never have done that.  Seems the actual showing of love and compassion like Christ is rare, even though we say that is our response.  I'm not even sure we comprehend the truth, love or compassion like Christ.  We try, but yet we fall so short of His example.

The truth is...my foot does have a fracture no matter what the PA told me.

AND

The truth is...God is guiding me to a particular direction no matter what other Christians or sinners tell  me.

This truth...His truth sets me free!  REALLY!


    

Are You A Better Man?

It is easy to deceive those in need of something and those starving will follow for a time.  But men are called to “Treat older women as you would your mother, and treat younger women with all purity as you would your own sisters” (1 Timothy 5:1-2).  Even Christ treated the woman at the well with respect.  Trafficking stops with the teaching of our young boys to be better men.  After all, better men deserve better women...maybe even one that will obey...LOL.

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WOW...My Prince Comes

For all those ladies down and out yesterday...remember our REAL Prince Charming is coming back to take us away, riding on a white horse, His eyes like blazing fire, wearing a crown, dressed in a red robe, and on his thigh he has a tattoo..."KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS." - Rev. 19:11-16 Even if we are unfaithful, HE IS FAITHFUL! - Romans 3:3-4

Help Me Abandon Naive Abandon

Lord, help me to look to you in EVERYTHING!  Even when it seems you are the one guiding circumstances, help me to confirm it is you and not pretty deception by the evil one.   Remind me to take EVERYTHING to you first in prayer for confirmation before I act in naive abandon thinking this is your will.  "Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things..." (Isaiah 40:26). 

Like Beth Moore says, "God has a plan for your life.  So does the devil."  And don't think the devil's plan is going to look unattractive. STOP and seek the Lord in ALL things.