Who's truth are you holding on to?

Who’s truth are you holding on to? Breaking Free took me on a journey that had everything to do with truth. The Holy Spirit was able to do the groundbreaking work I had avoided for years. And as always, exceeded my thoughts and expectations. I could no longer run away from the truth. I stood, sat, cried, laughed and healed from the truth. It forced me to look at what truths I had been holding on to. And realize that those truths weren’t truths at all. In fact, they were lies. It’s easy to hold on to things that disguise themselves as truths. And sometimes we ourselves may actually be the culprit for them. Society is always telling us that if we just achieve blank, we’ll finally be happy and fulfilled. As a single woman it’s the idea that if I could just meet a man, I would be happy. As a married woman it may be if I could just have kids, I would be happy. The examples are endless. And when we allow those "truths" to take up residency in our minds and hearts we set ourselves up to achieve the unachievable. Yes, we can absolutely find happiness from some of the things we long for. However, the truth we are believing is that it will be everlasting, and that is the bigger issue with the lie. After all, happiness is like any other emotion, just like the tide at the beach, it can flow in and flow right back out. Surrendering to God’s truth is something else I truly learned in Breaking Free. And it’s a daily, sometimes every moment of the day choice. We can know something and it still have no real impact on our life. I know that I don’t need anymore lipstick, but I still manage to go to the makeup aisle and buy some because every shade of red is different, right?! And isn’t making concessions part of what we do when we want to avoid the truth? Don’t we even find ourselves making concessions when it comes to God’s truth. We read scripture that has to do with God’s commandments and then before you know it we are trying to negotiate a compromise with Him because we don’t like what it says. I know I have. Like, surely you were not thinking of me when you wrote this, God. Or, we hear him tell us to do something and we try to stifle His voice because it may lead to temporary discomfort. Who’s truth are you holding on to? Is it your truth? Your family’s truth? The world’s truth? Or, is it God’s truth? When I lived in my truth and the world’s truth I can tell you what it brought me. It brought me sadness, anger, jealousy, exhaustion, disappointment, fear, dissatisfaction and captivity. It lead me to make compromises and decisions from the foundation of insecurity. John 8:32 ESV And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. God’s truth wasn’t provided to us just so we could merely avoid the wages of sin. That’s not all He wants us to achieve when we accept it. He wants it to grow and guide us. He wants it to heal us. To tell us who we are. For us to use it as an anchor when we weather life’s storms. And it’s the only truth that can bring us everlasting contentment and freedom. I’ve learned that it’s not simply about reading it or knowing it. It’s about studying it, mediating on it, believing it, surrendering to it, proclaiming it, dwelling in it and most importantly, applying it. Just like you, I am faced with the same choice every day; who’s truth am I going to hold on to. Am I going to fall back into old habits and listen to the lies portraying themselves as truths? Or, am I going seek God and hold on to His truth? Either decision requires work. The difference is only one of them actually leads to rewards that can satisfy the deepest part of your soul.