Truth!

Today’s Reading:  Mark 12:1-27

I know that Jesus is the son of God and that he knows everything before it is spoken, but throughout these scriptures I am amazed at the intelligence and humbleness of his words.  He speaks to those that hate him, those that he knows will betray him with such truth and conviction.  What is he showing me here?  Maybe to speak the truth no matter whom I face?   He tells us many times in His word to stand on truth, but here he is showing us how.  When he told the parable, they knew he was speaking about them without ever calling a name.  Why?  Because speaking the truth will only reveal the truth in those that hear it.  Even when those deny it, like these men did, it still stirred the truth within them.  Sometimes I want so bad for people to see the truth, but my job is not to open the eyes and hearts of people, that God’s job, my job is to speak the truth and only the truth.  It is so easy to say what people want to hear, to say things that you know will not offend, to say things that may benefit you, but that is not the way it is suppose to be.  Again, Jesus never told us that following him would be easy, but as Christians, we can’t look for the easy path, we look for the right path, the true path----that is the only path that will lead us to Jesus.

As we live for Christ we will always have people trying to trip us up, trying to make us look bad, trying to cause doubt in our lives, but we have to live by the example that Jesus has set before us.  Again, speak the truth!  However, in order to speak the truth, we have to know the truth and that truth is in knowing God’s Word.  God pointed that out to some of the men that were questioning him in verse 24.  I will be the first to admit that I cannot begin to stand against the enemy without having the Word living inside of me.  Now I don’t mean that one needs to know the Bible from cover to cover, in fact, just knowing the story doesn’t make it truth within you.  I have learned that I have to read it, think on it, and seek Jesus to reveal the truth in what I have read, and I have to do this daily.  It is unbelievable how much better my day flows when I read God’s Word first and spend time with Him prior to starting my day.  I am not saying that those days are perfect, but I am able to handle the things that come my way.  Our strength comes from our faith in Jesus Christ and staying in his Word, the Truth, can only strengthen that faith.

I pray all the time for Jesus to please allow me to know the truth, for me to see through anything that is not of Him and reveal the truth of who he is in all that I do.  I know that Satan is right there trying to cover the truth, trying to confuse the truth, and trying to hide the truth from God's children, but he can only be successful if we let him.  We have to be intentional with whom we will listen to and I can tell you that Jesus will show us the truth when we seek him with our whole heart. 

Thank you Jesus for your Word of Truth---I cannot make it through this life without it!