Journey of Love - The Truth

Journey of Love – Rejoices in the Truth

Her boyfriend worked for a used car dealership in Salem, VA.  She had her eye on the little red sports car so he bent the rules and let her take it out for a drive.  She took it to the winding country roads just north of town.  When I first saw her, she was coming around a corner much too quickly and began to slide.  In a panic, she over-corrected and started fish-tailing narrowly missing the van in front of me, swerved towards me and then away just in time.  The scene in my rear view mirror seemed to happen in slow motion as one of the little red car’s wheel’s dug into the soft shoulder and the car slowly rolled over and came to rest on its roof.  By the time I got to the car, she was crawling out, mostly unharmed, but in a panic.  Her words, “Oh my God, what am I going to tell my boyfriend.”  I had to think, “why don’t you start with the truth?”

So often, nowadays, we fall back on the truth as a last resort.  We may even rationalize that we are protecting someone by lying.  More often, we think that we are protecting ourselves.  In reality, the opposite is true.  In today’s characteristic of love, love rejoices with the truth.  When we stray away from the truth, we betray love.

The first step in healing is getting honest with ourselves, with God, and with our loved ones.  When we hide our problems, we cannot work towards solving them.  When we bring the problems out into the open in appropriate ways, we start on a path where we can see them healed.

As you seek to bring out the truth in your life, I urge you to seek the Truth in Scripture.  Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” (John 14:6)  He is the ultimate Truth.  The Bible gives us a glimpse at this Truth.  It lets us know things like the fact that we were designed by God before the beginning of the world (Psalm 139).  We find out that God loved us so much that He sent His Son to die for us so we could be with Him (John 3:16) and that He did this even while we were sinners (Romans 5:8).  We also find out that we can be empowered, gifted, and made more than conquerors (1 Corinthians 12, Romans 8).

There is so much encouragement in the Bible to lead us on a path of wholeness.  Let’s seek this Truth and conquer the dishonesty in our lives!