A Proverb a day gets you on your way!
Here is the Daily Dose for Friday, January 8, 2016.
My advice is wholesome. There is nothing devious or crooked in it. Proverbs 8:8
This Might Hurt A Little
If you have ever been to court or seen a court room movie you have seen someone get sworn in to testify. It is always a dramatic event. The witness comes to the stand. They sit in the box and then someone comes over to them. They are asked to stand and raise their hand and give an oath. The oath always has some blend of these words worked in, “Do you swear that what you are about it to say is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?” The witness says yes, and only then can the questioning begin.
It is fascinating that witness have to swear to tell, “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” You would think that telling the truth would be enough, but we all know that it is not. We live in a world where people have a version of the truth, their personal truth, and shades of the truth. In other words, the truth may not be actually the truth, so we need to make sure that you know we are asking for all of the the truth, not a version of the truth.
The problem is, there are times that the truth hurts, but you still need to hear it. The joy of wisdom is that it promises not to give you a version of the truth, but the actual truth. Wisdom promises that there will be nothing tainted, in what it says, nothing devious in what it says, and nothing crooked in what it says. In short, wisdom promises to give it to you straight. What we have to do is be prepared for the fact that the truth may hurt, you may not like it, but the truth will still set you free.
Be Blessed,
Rev
Daryl Williams 