7 years ago
May 7, 2004
I was thinking about truth the other day (this has been my manna for the week). I realized that truthfulness is not just something that God told us to do so we should do it. It is, like all His other commands, a safeguard. When are you ever going to get in trouble for telling the truth? It's like a wall. Every time you tell the truth you are putting a brick up to build the wall for your protection. However, when you don't speak/live truthfully you are not only failing to put a brick up or even just taking one down, you are tearing the whole wall down. You see, if someone sees you live in a way contrary to Gods commands, they will know that the Truth does not dwell in you. I don't mean if someone sees you slip up once, but if you are willingly stepping into sin. The only way to live truthfully is to have the truth in you at all times, or should I say, to live in the truth at all times. Without that what else would we rely on?
In 1 John 4:13 says that "we dwell in him, and he in us." So would it not be logical to say that if we both dwell in each other we should always be exemplifying the truth? Why than do we not? Romans 7:19-21 says, "For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me." So, even though the Truth dwells in us and we in it, we continue to do that which is not truthful because of our sin nature. So, should we just give up and live in submission to ourselves as opposed to God? If you had a job and knew that you would get paid even if you did not do anything would you work? No? What if every time you did something that was in your job description you would get a bonus? Than would you do anything? It is in our job description to live truthfully. And, God will reward that! How awesome is that?
