Jesus is the Truth that sets us free

“Stop lying to one another.” At the heart of our human condition, is a most profound and an increasing and unfortunate sadness that plagues our children, our families, our society and even ourselves. We simply keep lying to one another to the point that we prefer a lie to the truth. We say the truth hurts when Jesus teaches us the truth always sets us free. Unfortunately, we have grown old and so accustomed to lying that at times we even encourage our children and one another to forgo telling the truth. We unfortunately believe it is more advantageous to tell a lie. It is more profitable and more likely to keep us from harm or from trouble with the law or in-laws, with our relatives, our spouses and our employers. What a lie that is, is becoming and has plagued our way of relating to one another in this world. We minimize and eliminate the truth. We omit certain parts and embellish others. We mask the truth with a lie and then we lie about it. We twist and stretch the truth. We manipulate it, transform and enhance it. We believe “a little white lie,” “a small exaggeration,” “a stretching of the truth,” is okay. It doesn’t hurt anyone. No one will know the difference and yet you do, and we still choose to do it. Lying is not from God. It is a vice not a virtue.  It is wrong and could never be perceived as something that is good and that anything good can flow and come from a lie. The truth is Jesus is the Way, the only Way to the Father, to heaven, to eternity, to our family and friends who have gone before us in faith and now rest in eternal peace. Jesus is the Truth that sets us free – the Truth that no one can love us better – the Truth that God so loves us that He sent His only Son to die freely and lovingly for you and me. Jesus is the Life that the Father gave us who lived only in truth and truly suffered and died because of one lie and the many lies of others. If you lie to another, you are only deceiving and lying to yourself. It is not real; it didn’t really happen that way. A lie does not change or alter the truth – just your perspective on it and what you want others to believe is true. A lie is harmful. No good decision can come from it.