Truth...

Does it make one a fool to believe someone they love, even when they know that person is being less than honest? To answer this question we must look at our relationship with Jesus Christ. We know God knows everything about us yet there are times we hide away in an attempt to keep something from Him. Sometimes what we try to hide are things others can see but in every case Jesus is concerned with what we are hiding in our hearts not our deeds. Does Jesus turn from us when we are less than honest with Him? Then why do we feel like turning from those we love when they struggle with telling us the truth? It comes down to this regardless of how it makes you look in other’s eyes, foolish, naïve, or something not quite right mentally, will you love with the love of Jesus or is your love bound by the limitations of humanity, which is really not love at all.

See yourself through God's eyes

(Romans 12:3 NLT) Because of the privilege and authority God has given me, I give each of you this warning: Don't think you are better than you really are. Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us.

For many that means your value is much more than you think, for God gave His only Son so that you could be adopted into His family – you are of great value to our Creator! For many more that means you need to take your eyes off yourself and humbly lay your works and all that you are at God’s feet knowing your efforts are worthless unless Jesus is the center of all that you do. All of mankind struggles with extremes either we believe the enemy’s lies about us being worthless or we over compensate and puff ourselves up for all to see. Both are wrong, for it is the in middle where we experience relationship with Jesus. With either extreme our eyes are more on ourselves than what God has done so that we might walk with Him. When our eyes are not focused on Jesus neither are our ears and we cannot follow because we are spiritually blind and deaf. How much greater it is to follow the One that has traveled this unseen path before. Jesus came to show us the way being born of a virgin, living as a man, being tempted by the enemy, and laying it all down for those who persecuted Him. Did Jesus puff out His chest and proudly pronounce to the world who He was? Did Jesus hide in the shadows because He was something less than what God called Him to be? Neither is true for Jesus walked right through the middle, disrupting all the enemies plans setting free those He came in contact with and many that He didn’t. Jesus followed where His Heavenly Father led Him, how can we do any less?