Your truth vs thee truth

John 14:6 Jesus answered “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father expect through me.”

We all want to have our own truth. We want to figure out the best way to live our “best lives”.

Truth is defined as a fact or belief that is accepted as true. With that definition, we see many quotes, mantras, and sayings that we use as a descriptor of our lives and who we are. We tend to use things that make us feel good and what seems fair and true, but as Christians, we are called to be set apart. 

Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Not everything that is posted, is truth. Sometimes what our sin-filled world sees as good, is not of God. As we grow deeper in our faith, our discernment radar will become heightened. We will see a message that feels good to our flesh but is not true according to our Heavenly Father. A part of being set apart is learning to be okay with not agreeing with everything the world says. 

We live in an era that is constantly yelling “live your own truth.” I read an article that put it this way: we should desire God’s truth, not try to design our own. As the salt and light of the world, we are called to preserve (as salt) the truth of God and expose things (as light) that are disturbing God’s kingdom. 

The “truths” that we set for ourselves are based on our feelings. They shift with the seasons and are determined by what is going on in our lives. But the truth of God is unchanging. It is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. We must shift our minds from self-centered to God-centered. It’s not about how Chelsea feels or what Chelsea says about a situation, it’s about what God says! Shifting our thinking won’t happen naturally, it is something we will have to work at contstantly. We naturally want to do what our flesh leads us to do, but we must daily deny ourselves and take up the cross! (Matth. 16:24) We must take our thoughts captive and examine them through the microscope of God’s word. We must be IN God’s word! Don’t be so caught up in the world that you miss what’s in the word!

Matthew 7:24-27 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”

Whose truth is your life built on? ❤️