God Is Always Trustworthy

Proverbs 3:5-6 says, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths."

God's ways are not our ways.

In John 8:32, "Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

These verses are totally striking at my heart in a very deep way. I wasn't even sure that it was in the Bible where it says "the truth will set you free", so I decided to look it up this morning and found it. Yay God!!! It's not a cliche.

God can't lie period. He just can't. If I believe that what He has in the Bible is true, then what is written there is true. God is not mocked. Whatever we sow, we reap. What are things we sow? All sorts of fears? Laziness? Sexual Immorality? White lies? Angry words? Frustrations? The list goes on infinitely.

What does it mean that "the truth will set you free"? As I've already begun addressing lies in previous entries and in other blogs I write in, lies are the opposite of God's Truth. When we are in bondage to those lies, slaves to them, we are not free to live God's Truth in our lives.

When we have God's Truth attack those lies and destroy them in our lives, only then can we be set free from sin's grip. There are so many things of the Bible that I've read over and over again, yet, I was blind to what it actually meant. What that means is I didn't understand how to translate that into actions.

What does it mean to be set free in God's Truth, to not be in bondage to sin?

What do you need to do?

1. Be aware of your responses to things & the emotions that come up whenever.

Example: I was talking to a friend about a family at my church and became incredibly emotional, crying, while talking about this family. This family didn't do anything to me. In fact, I have a great relationship with the whole family. As I relayed an incident about someone commenting on this couple's 2 oldest kids, just that incident had me angry & very upset that even now as I think about it, I'm feeling somewhat upset.

2. With #1, keep a small notebook or journal of these things and what are things that triggered that emotion or response. Doesn't have to make sense at all, just write it down.

3. Take one of those items from #2, pray and ask God why those emotions came up. What is the lie? When did it originate? Memories may come back up to a specific place & time. The memory is actually what you perceived at the time of the memory, and not even be something that actually was correct. Your perception may have been skewed at the time, but it did form your belief system.

4. Ask God to show you what lies you believed about that memory.

5. Take responsibility that you received those lies into your life at that point from back in the memory.

6. Ask God to bring His Truth into that memory. Listen. He may give more images, words, sounds, smells, sensing, etc.

7. Ask God to bring His Healing into that situation.

8. Thank God.

See, when we replace faulty belief systems -- the lies -- with God's Truth, it DOES bring freedom.

One of the areas that many people are challenged with are performance issues. If I do these things or do not do these things, God will love me more. The fact is, God loves you as much as He can love you. No one could love you more than God loves you. His love for you is NOT based upon anything you do, think or feel. God's love for us is infinite.

Imagine if you were no longer concerned abour performing for God what freedom that would bring. You wouldn't have the fear that plagues you, because you would know that you could never disappoint God. He completely & fully accepts you -- yes, even your sinful nature, which if you're a Christian, the blood of Jesus Christ covers your sins. If you're not a Christian, than that is a different story.

What would you do if fear didn't hold you back from things? Freedom, don't you think?