Do You Get Mad When Confronted With the Truth?Smakprov

Truth Will Set You Free 

If we can be honest about ourselves and if we can believe what God says about our sin, about our need for him, and about his provision for us in Christ, we can be healed. This is what Jesus meant when he said, “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32). 

The question “What is truth?” is more relevant today than ever. You would think that with all our easy access to information and expert opinions, we would know the truth— yet the opposite is true. We have trouble recognizing real news from fake.

There is factual truth, as in two-plus-two-equals-four, and truth that conforms to reality, in that summer will follow spring. We speak of a “true friend” or “true love,” meaning faithful, lasting, and genuine. But Jesus referred to fundamental truth when he said, “…you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32).

The fundamental truth has been under attack since the very beginning of time. We look back at creation and see that Adam and Eve lived in a perfect world and had only one prohibition. But Satan came along and said, "Is that really true? Did God really mean that you shouldn’t eat from that fruit which is pleasing to the eye and certainly would taste very good?" Satan attacked God’s truth.

There is the absolute truth of God and the Scriptures. When the Bible tells us about the reality of sin, we need to accept it as sin and not as just a mistake or temperament. When the Bible tells us what is right and wrong, we must accept it as true and not reject even though it may hurt us. 

When the Bible tells us that there is forgiveness because of the death and resurrection of Jesus, we must also accept this truth and find freedom from our sin through confessing and forsaking it.

The Bible tells us that “Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy”. (Proverbs 28:13)

When Adam and Eve sinned, they sought to cover their nakedness by sewing fig leaves together. Many today go through much of the same experience, more or less relying on their own ingenuity to hide their own confusion. Like Festus, instead of admitting that he was wrong, he got mad at Paul. 

When confronted by wrong that you have done, do you make lame excuses that seek to disguise the seriousness of the guilt? Or do you pretend that the thing done was not done? Or that it is not what people supposed it to be? Or do you use every ingenious arguments that seek to represent sin as something other than sin, as a mere defect or taint in the blood, as hereditary and unavoidable weakness, as an aberration of the mind for which you are not responsible?

Will you spend a few moments asking God to show you areas in your life that you have been covering up sin in your life? Confess it. Forsake it. Find freedom.

Quote: “You will find in the average church that there is a Band-Aid of silence wrapped over the cancer of sin.” J. Vernon McGee 

Prayer: Lord, I confess to You the times that I have got mad when confronted with the truth of my sin. I ask You for forgiveness. Thank You for setting me free. Amen