What is the value of truth? How much am I willing to pay to stand for the truth? Around 2AM the night before last I startled awake to the end of a dream in which several of my closest friends rushed into the room crying "TRUTH"- one word, as if it were a battle cry. Immediately a verse I had read just before bed flashed into my mind- Galatians 4:16. Here Paul asks the Galatians, "So have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?" As crazy as it sounds, I learned so much from this. I recognized the fact that truth should be our battle cry. Often times, most people, even in our churches, don't want to hear truth. It's scary and makes us uncomfortable. It means we have to change. Because of these fears, when one speaks the truth, he will often be considered the enemy. He will be isolated and ostracized. The truth WILL cost us; it will cost a lot. When we speak the truth, we enter a spiritual battlefield where truth must be our battle cry. No matter what it costs, we have to cling to truth.
Lie: The truth is not worth as much as it will cost me.
Truth: The truth is PRICELESS. Proverbs 23:23a-- "Buy truth, and do not sell it"
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yay! now i can comment!
this post is quite...frank. and that's definitely a good thing.
i'm reading a good book that mrs. jarrel gave to me (it's linked on my site as 'birthright'. unfortunately, it doesn't have a picture), and it discusses our identity as xians. it's basically saying that we don't act any different because we don't consider ourselves free from "the old man" and deny the newness of life that we are given.
truth is certainly a risky business.
amen, good thought.
Reformer
jamie, you need to write something else. it's an order.
I'll get right on that! ;)
well, there was supposed to be a comma or something separating the two words, but...who knows--it may be prophetic...
hm...
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