You can't handle the truth!

Our Daily Bread
There is a poignant line in the movie "A Few Good Men" that is quoted a lot.  "The truth?  You can't handle the truth!"  Satan has lead us to believe that in our daily lives as well!  Nooooo!

The Truth, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, is what leads us to God!  Satan obviously doesn't want that to happen.  Resist him!  ha!  Seeing the real truth about the lies of this world help us focus our lives on the truth that God sent us in his Son. The Truth!  Yes we CAN handle the Truth and the Truth will set us free!

Side note: I discovered a truth that I didn't want to discover yesterday.  God has been telling me some things for almost five years now.  I haven't listened.  I didn't trust God.  I learned yesterday the "wages" of that disobedience.  I will look forward and not back.  I will accept God's love and forgiveness and learn to do better.  The Truth really does set us free.

Lord, help us listen to YOUR truth and not the lies that surround each each day!

Teaching Tuesday
Galatians
The letter to the Galatians is probably one of the most strongly worded books in the New Testament.  Most folks think of the New Testament as being all about love and that is mostly true.  It is also about sin, restoration and faithfulness to God!  Paul harshly addresses the Galatians after they leave behind the Gospel that Paul preached and took up some false hybrid teachings from false teachers, those who would pervert the Gospel of Christ.  I can just hear Paul saying something like "I gave you TWO simple things to do -- love God and love others.  But NOOOOOOO!"  hahaha I was saddened that even at the begining of the church that folks had to go their own way instead of following Christ.  This has continued over and over in our Christian history!  Yikes!

There's a line in a song by Casting Crowns that caught my attention:
"We cut down people in your name but the sword was never ours to swing"

Can't we stop doing that?

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As wise King Solomon said, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths” (Prov. 3:5-6).