Psalm 25:5
Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; for You I wait all the day.

John 4:24 (Jesus speaking)
God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth.

The Truth – Christians believe that they have been given the truth from God and that is true (no pun intended). However, we often forget several important things about truth…

1. The truth isn’t ours, “lead me in Your truth”. It comes from God.
2. Just because we are Christians, we don’t come anywhere close to living the truth,
3. Because we still deal with a sin nature, we can get the truth wrong, or distort it in a way that God didn’t intend.

The problem isn’t the truth, for it comes from a perfect God. The problem is us.

We forget that there are ways to speak the truth, to not compromise the truth, yet speak it in love. For when we forget the last part, we become something that turns others away. I wonder why I get that wrong so often? Why is it so easy to compare others to my standard when I am not living the truth? Why do I forget to love and instead judge others?

Because we know the truth, for Christians it can be very dangerous because it can lead to pride, arrogance, and elitism. We take the truth and without God’s leading, we then believe it creates in us wisdom, goodness and purity in our lives. Without a humble heart, it can turn into something quite ugly.

Psalm 25:5 is something I need to pray and meditate on each and every day. It is something that should come to mind every time I am faced with someone that doesn’t know or hasn’t been exposed to God’s truth. It should especially come to mind when other Christians have made the truth a hammer to correct others, rather than a reason to love them and show them God’s truth by the way they live.

I pray for God’s teaching and that I will wait on him all day, for He is my salvation.

Always praying for the glory of God,