Saturday, August 25, 2018

Dear God,

Why do we have such trouble with truth?  There is truth and sometimes the way I wish truth was.  However, nothing can change the truth but one who wants to massage it to become something else.  At day's end all I really want is the truth that comes from you.  Although it may hurt, challenge, convict, disappoint or reveal, your truth is all that really matters.

I am always drawn back to the truth Jesus spoke of, the kind of truth that sets people free.  Only the real truth can liberate people.  Anything else is just a substitute that has no real power.  The woman caught in adultery (where was the man?) was freed when each person who had the power to stone the woman had to drop their stone because they met their own truth, the truth of their own sin.

Only you offer authentic truth, the truth that sets people free.  May we want only that truth!

Blessed are you,
God most high.
Thank you
for truth
that transforms.
Thank you
for giving us
a moral center,
where you reside.
Teach us
the truth
no matter what,
I pray.

Love, Andrea