Day Twenty-Three: Give Truth

Give … Truth

God wants us to grow up, to know the whole truth and tell it in love--like Christ in everything. We take our lead from Christ, who is the source of everything we do. Eph 4:15

But anyone who examines this evidence will come to stake his life on this: that God himself is the truth. John 3:33

Make them holy--consecrated-with the truth; Your word is consecrating truth. John 17:17
Jesus said, "I am the Road, also the Truth, also the Life. No one gets to the Father apart from me. John 14:6

In the gospel of John, Jesus stands before Pilate and tells him that the reason he was born was “to testify to the truth.” Pilate then asks the question heard around the world: what is truth? (John 18:38) People have been searching to answer this question for thousands of years.

Today, truth has become an abstract, grayed into oblivion, left to wander through time and culture. Jesus answered Pilate’s question even before it was asked. After he had washed the disciples’ feet and predicted their betrayal, Jesus comforted them. He said not only was he Life and the only way to the Father, but that he was literally the Truth. Not a way to know the truth or a path to the truth – Jesus made the bold statement that he was the embodiment of Truth – period.

Giving truth is giving Jesus through your actions. Speaking truth is speaking love through your words. Living truth is living out the mission of His Life.

Then you will experience for yourselves the truth, and it is that truth that will set you free. (John 8:32)

Father-God, You are the Truth that opens blind hearts and closed minds. You have given substance to abstraction and color to a graying world.