Truth Floats
Lies — not so much.
Truth floats up from the confused mental murkiness of our minds.
It doesn’t matter who speaks truth if it’s true.
It seems to resonate and can become clearer and more obvious as it spreads through repetition from the one to the many.
And just like it floats up from the murkiness of one solitary brain, it does the same in communities where it is safe to speak one’s mind.
And there’s more. Not only does truth float, it saves lives, just like a life raft.
Lies sink. Nothing of substance holds them up.
They dissolve and they are corrosive to the one who speaks them and those who come to believe them as truth.
And what are some of the greatest lies?
The oldest is that we can be gods. Another is that there is no such thing as truth, right, wrong, good, and evil.
Anyone attached to lies finds it hard to move. Hard to breath. Tired. Listless. Lacking joy, peace, and love.
And what compounds the problem is the loss of the ability to see any alternatives, and ways of escape.
To float, drop all lies.
Tell yourself what you know to be true and find others who are gentle loving truth tellers as well.
We don’t need scolds, but a good life is always lived within the light of what is true. Solid.
Begin with this vital and important truth.
God loves you.
It has nothing to do with your performances. You can’t win it or earn it.
You may not feel God’s love, especially when surrounded by lies, but you can know it is true.
It is the reason Jesus chose to die on a Roman cross for those who would believe.
That’s a solid enough truth to build a life on.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.
Our world seems to be full of lies these days.
Your explanation of truth was both solid and delightful. I pray that more folks choose truth but especially that they realize God loves them.