I Swear to Tell the Truth, the Whole Truth and....

I SWEAR!!

You hear it all the time- “I Swear it’s true”, “Cross my heart and hope to die”, ” Honestly,” “The truth is..”, “I Swear on a stack of Bibles”, “ I Swear to God it’s true”, “To Be perfectly honest”, “Seriously”, “Trust Me”, and the list could go on and on. All ways we use to emphasize “for sure” that what we are saying is really true. (this time)

“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” (Sir Walter Scott) So we rename our lies to: fibs, white lies, tales, fabrication, negative campaigning, half truths, exaggeration, misrepresentation, misinformation, fudge the truth, fish story, string someone along, evade, falsehoods, whoppers, putting up fronts, distortion, rationalization, and the list goes on and on. I love Churchill’ s definition of a lie, “perpetuating a terminological inexactitude.”

Mark Twain States: “When in doubt, tell the truth.” Is that even possible or probable? In Matthew 5: 33-37 Jesus asks people to “Rethink” our speech patterns. Christians should be known as truth-tellers. Our influence for God’s kingdom grows as we give ourselves to truth. Jesus makes it clear that the follower of Jesus represents His character to the world. His Followers are to be people of influence that shine the life of Jesus in a crooked and depraved world (Phil 2:14-16).

I believe that your growth “in the knowledge of the Son of God, to become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ is fundamentally the mission of our church. (Eph. 4:13) Jesus desires to put on display those who have been changed by the full measure of Christ in their lives. What a privilege to be part of His Kingdom building strategy.

Wherever you go you can have in your heart and mind God’s eternal priorities. God sent Jesus as Savior of the World because everyone needs to find Jesus.

Pray and Watch wherever you go using the 5-second prayer. This simple prayer reminds us of what matters most, people finding Jesus.

Father, Please send your Holy Spirit to work in the hearts of these people. Draw them to Jesus and make them kingdom workers.

All of life, All the time can be about God’s eternal purposes. I look forward to our time of honoring God together this weekend. It’s so important we gather together to encourage one another to Christ’s full measure in our lives. I trust you will make this weekend a priority in your schedule.

God Bless

Pastor Randy