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There are matters that are too important to ignore or leave to chance. These are salient moments.
“With great regard.”
It is a phrase that was often used to describe the honor given to truth. “With great regard for the truth.”
Gradually, painfully, and almost silently, we have taken the truth and set it aside, believing it to be impractical. Lying seems to be a “second nature” condition of human beings. Folks feel more comfortable viewing it that way. Assuming people are lying takes away the responsibility to hear the truth.
Yet no lie survives history. In other words:
- Alexander wasn’t so great.
- The Third Reich did not last for a thousand years.
- And the Crusades achieved nothing except the deaths of innocents.
All lies are eventually exposed.
So what is truth? Is the Bible truth? Unfortunately, the Good Book has been used for a lot of bad. There are doctrines which were promoted years ago, which have proven to be too stringent.
After all, there were no witches in Salem, there is no way to prohibit human couples from divorcing, and gay people can’t live their entire lives closeted.
So truth is not about laws or regulations from government or religion. Truth, very simply, is: “Based upon what we know, this is the way things appear to be.”
But we need a way to get there. Yes–we need a way to speak the truth that will give us life. Truth can never be achieved unless it’s greased by the motivation of love.
Truth told without love is vengeance.
Truth told without love reeks of lies.
And truth told without love takes life instead of giving it.
If we use love to humbly speak the best of our knowledge, we will gain life.
And what do we mean by life? Permission to continue our freedom as long as we grant it to others.
When we disregard truth and we begin to use pride, vengeance and selfishness to generate the lies that hurt others, we eventually will have our own lives snatched from us.
There is a way that leads to truth, which brings us life. If we use love to speak the truth we presently know, then we’ll be given a life we can live freely.
So here is your salient moment: Just because the inclination is lying, it does not mean that lying can ever settle in and find peace.
After all, it is the truth that makes us free.
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