Honesty

#192  Sunday, Oct. 13/13  11pm, at home

Again another day comes to a close.  Or that is how we sometimes look at it. 

Tomorrow brings a new adventure.  I will be with you then as together we journey in our faith life.

Do you realize the importance of being honest?  Now that question comes out of the blue yet it is important that we address honesty.

How do I want you to look at it?  How often does it come up in your life?  When do you realize that you are not being as honest as you could be?  When do we slip in the extra that may not be as accurate as the original?

Do we check ourselves when we feel we are going astray with a story?  Do we tend to add things?

What I want you to do is to beg Me to show you where you are lying.  Now, no one wants  to be called a liar.  So I will not call you a liar, yet if you beg Me to show you when/if you are lying, I will do it most willingly.

Do not try to analyze it by yourself.

Ask Me to help you.  Again it is another step in trusting Me to reveal to you how our union can and should grow ---- if that is what you want.

No need to seek comfort from elsewhere, just from Me.  I will comfort your soul that does not like to see itself as not truthful.  Right?

Gee we have journeyed this far and talked about all sorts of things and so now we will venture into seeking to be very truthful in our thoughts and words.

Now, truth and honesty go together, yet you do not have to say something mean to, or about, someone and follow it by saying --- “well, it’s the truth.”

The facts may be true but your motive certainly is not.  If you base it on love and you know the Truth is hurtful, then you will not say it and act quickly to even remove it from your mind. 

When have we asked God to speak the Truth to someone’s heart?

Sometimes we want to be the bearer of the un-loving truth.  But we must avoid this because it does not follow through with our command from God to love one another.

You may think that if you love the person you will tell them the Truth.  Yet look around you.  Does this so-called truth build up or tear down a person?

Come to Me first and ask Me if it is My Will to give you the opportunity to speak the Truth to a person. 

Remember it can’t be about your pride or your revenge.  It has to be about My Love.

Ask yourself why do you think the person needs to hear the truth?  And is it the truth according to you or according to Me?

So many of us rush to tell the truth without first consulting with Me.

I hold the key to the Words of Truth.  If they are to be said, let Me tell you what to say and when.

I know some people will ask you  to be truthful after they have asked you a question like “Do you like my haircut?” ,  “Do you think I should have an abortion?”  You see some questions are more profound and drastically life-changing compared to others.

Yet each calls for gentle truth.  “I like your hair when it is fuller.  It compliments your face.”

And yet the second question calls for an all-out assault of Love.

Not an easy response like “I don’t believe in it, but it really is up to you.”  Now that is true – that the person has a choice in this circumstance, yet they need more Truth-filled Love.  Go out on a limb and tell them “No, absolutely not.”

They may ask why that response?  Gently add “you are special,  your baby is special and the Lord has given you the privilege to carry this precious creation of His.”

As women and men we take responsibility for creating life, yet we can’t.

It is impossible.  Science tells us how the egg when fertilized by the sperm will develop instantly into a human being. 

But we have not created the egg.

We have not created the sperm.

We have not created the unbelievable union that takes place and creates another one-of-a-kind human being.

That is how precious each person is in God’s sight.  Each of us is one-of-a-kind.  We can’t fathom the Greatness of God!

Yet we sometimes are afraid to proclaim His Greatness by standing for the Truth of each new created human being.

Do we lie to ourselves and God when we make excuses for taking the life of a human being? 

Here we are, back to talking about lying. 

How truthful are we to God and ourselves when He confronts us with His Truth?

How do we make it easy on us not to be obedient to All His Truths?

We are lying to ourselves if we say we have a personal relationship with Jesus and yet choose not to adhere to His Way, His Truth, His Life.

So lying to others is far secondary than our lying to Jesus.

Perhaps we have never put lying in that context before.  We usually see it as a human to human thing!

So start to see it more as a human to God exchange.  So if there is any lying done in this union, it is only coming from one source and that source is not God.

Enough for now.

Sleep tight.

Cover the World with My Love sent from your heart.