Mondays with Jesus

  I bumped into a couple of statements this weekend. 

“The truth is most often quiet; lies are loud.”  Source unknown. 

It does seem like lies shout the loudest; half-truths, misrepresentations, and outright lies, meant to create doubt within us,  do overshadow truth. I’m not good enough, I need _____ to be complete, and most dangerously, it’s really about me. How many more could we add to this list of deception? 

Truth, often whispering, waits for us to find it; it doesn’t rely on exaggeration or manipulation.  I’ve also found truth speaks a lot louder when we quiet our souls and plug into a reliable source.  A lot of my “Mondays with Jesus” posts morph into letters I’m leaving my grandchildren. I’ll emphasize this one and the need to always plug into the only reliable source for all life’s decisions: the Triune God.  Acts 17:11 comes to mind: Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. And of course the words in Jeremiah:  You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you…Jer.29.

And the other thought comes from Father David Guffey: Jesus can look into somebody’s heart and see what they need most. He was referencing the healing of the paralytic when Jesus says, after acknowledging his friends’ faith,  “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”  He knew what the man really needed: redemption; the ability to walk was but an extra dose of compassion. 

So on this Monday, I can’t take my eyes off of my Savior who sees my inmost need. The volume’s turned up, drowning out the lies.