Hi, and welcome to Five Word Prayers Daily, a five day a week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

On a scale of one to ten, how much does the truth matter to you?

Well, we probably all say a ten, I would think, at least a ten for truth in that people tell us the truth matter to you? Well, we probably all say a 10, I would think, at least a 10 for

truth in that people tell us the truth. But are we committed to a 10 truth to others as well?

Because loving the truth has to go both ways. We're going to take a closer look at that today.

Why the truth hurts is actually a false statement, though I catch myself saying it from

time to time, I admit, and why not being committed to a life of truth is hurting us in a way

we might not think. Stay with me.

Ooh, ooh. I've been exploring this idea of truth, or rather, I should probably say the Lord has been exploring it inside of me.

Insert a loud, ouch. For me and maybe 10 years now, when I did a study of Psalm 51, which,

as you may know, is the Psalm David wrote after being confronted over his sin with Bashiba,

which we don't have time to get into, but you can read about it if you don't know about

the story in 2nd Samuel 11. But he was confronted by Nathan the prophet about that sin, and sometime later wrote Psalm 51,

where he talks openly about sin and truth and what it's like to live apart from truth

and what God truly wants, which of course is the repentant heart.

Verse 10 is sort of one of those Bible famous verses, created me a clean heart, oh God, and

renew a right spirit within me. And I love that verse, beautiful. But I also love the verse four

verses earlier, verse six, when it says, but what you're looking for is truth from the inside out.

And that's in the message translation. Truth from the inside out is truly the only way to live.

And any of us who like David have lived apart from that know it to be true.

I think a lot of times we don't live a life of truth because we fear truth.

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