People love to talk about the importance of truth. We look upon truth as a commodity to be greatly admired and desired in others. However, it is an area of life where our greatest struggles take place. We all know how difficult it can be to open our lives and our hearts up to others, even those we love. Yes truth is something we all greatly seek but it seem so elusive.
Yet here is where I would like to make an observation with regards to the truth we all long to for. It has been my experience that there is no greater realization of truth than when I open my struggles up to God and confess them honestly to him in prayer. In prayer my sins of omission and commission can be laid before him. Here in my embarrassment, my struggle, and my pain, I can rediscover this life's greatest truth. Yes, I know I am a sinner, but the greatest truth is not found in my sin. It is found in the fact that through Jesus Christ I am a forgiven sinner.
God is holy and his holiness brings all my sins into the light. But I must never forget that because of my relationship with Jesus Christ I am forgiven. In prayer, as I open my life up to God, I experience life's greatest miracle, the exposure of my sins and the forgiveness of my God. Forgiveness in the fullest sense because Christ died for me.
So let the struggle for truth continue, let it rage in the deepest recesses of my heart. Yet let not my heart be troubled, for Christ died for me. That is the truth, the complete truth, and it has set me free.
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