Plain Simple Free(ing) Truth

“If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."-Jesus

Today, I sat in the mechanic's waiting room for about an hour. It was the start to my day and I brought my lap top, only to find no internet connection in the shop. But I did make use of a Word document and began to take notes from the Bible App on my phone... Most people would probably just do both the reading and the note-taking on the phone, but I like my notes to be big, I guess. And my phone has about zero space for anything else to be stored on it. But that's beside the point...

As I read God's word and typed scriptures and tuned into the Holy Spirit, I remembered how beautiful this is. Truth. Meditating on truth...thinking about it, speaking it, writing it, reading it, cross referencing it; studying. It's a beautiful act. It IS freeing! It's as if the truth carefully unbinds all the half truths and lies and falsehood from our wrists and throats and ankles, and allows us to reach, and breath, and move forward again, so freely.

Here's a piece from my time this morning:


Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips

Father, addict me to the love and truth of your Word. Let the hunger be un-ignorable. I want to taste and see that you are good numerous times a day, that I would remain in your freedom and claim what is mine, according to your truth, The Word. I invite you to speak to me, beckon me, and push me to go beyond where I've gone before in the realm of stewarding your word.

Grace