Living By Truth

God wants us to grow up, to know the whole truth and tell it in love – like Christ in everything. We take our lead from Christ, Who is the souce of everything we do.

(Ephesians 4:15,16 – The Message)


Eugene Peterson said it well in his book “Run With The Horses”. He said “ We must learn to live by the truth, not by our feelings, not by the worlds opinion, not by what the latest statistical survey tells us in the accepted morality, not by what advertisers tell us is the most gratifying lifestyle. We are trained in the biblical faith to take lightly what the experts say, the pollsters say, the politicians say, the pastors say. We are trained to listen to the Word of God, to test everything against what God reveals to us in Christ, to discover all meaning and worth by examining life in relation to God’s will.”


As it says in Ephesians, we are to know the whole truth (the way God tells it) and reveal it to others in his nature… love. But remember, We take our lead from Christ, who is the source of everything we do. The moment WE step up and try to do it ourselves, we mess it up, just the way a sinner would.