A prayer for living out the truth by Chelsea De Mateus, read by Leah Martin.

Jesus answered,

I am the way and the truth and the life.

No one comes to the father except through me, John 14-6.

Live your truth. It sounds easy, simple and freeing. But what happens when the truth someone

chooses is separate from the only truth we've found in Christ.

This way of seeking and living begins with pride invading our hearts and soon starts to bleed into the way we view our faith.

This struck my attention in 2019 when the phrase

Live Your Truth was becoming increasingly popular in America's

culture it deems it permissible to live in whatever form of truth you believe but now we're seeing people's truths lived out in their lives, and it's not

always pretty. For me, I not only see non-believers falling prey to this, but Christ followers are falling for it too.

None of us are immune.

We all have their propensity to believe that we can have a truth apart from Christ.

The lives of the wandering Israelites, as well as the story of Sampson, come to mind for

me. Both stories show disobedience to God due to living by

truths that had been sinfully woven together in their hearts. The Israelites

blatantly show that they did not trust. their and put their truth above what God wanted.

They were not only dismissive of God's provision,

but they did not want to live within the bounds of His Commandments.

Then we have Sampson, full of God's wisdom,

who exchanged his gift to give higher priority

to his fleshly desires. He dismissed the truth for a life that ended up leaving him

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