Truthful lips establish a testimony, but a hasty witness has an unrighteous tongue. Proverbs 12:21
This proverb is telling me about the importance of telling the truth from an interesting standpoint.
The best thing about telling the truth is that it is something that will ultimately feel the most comfortable to the teller. There's no need to be hasty in making up an entire history behind a lie when telling the truth. Telling the truth also establishes a testimony about your own character. If you are bound to tell the truth at all times, then you will show that you have a very good character.
Delving deeper into this proverb, though, I find that this concept can be applied to another aspect of living. When we know what the truth is, we can find comfort in it. When we are living in a lie, or even when we are living in a fiction, reality (or truth) weighs down on us. If you watch a movie or read a novel, you might enjoy experiencing a new world, but once you close the cover or leave the theater, you are stuck with your own world.
However, imagine how much comfort can come from knowing that the truth that weighs down on you is not fiction or hardship, but love and grace. In God, we can find the truth, which is a story of love from God to each one of us. We can find comfort in knowing that God loves us and builds us up to love all of those around us.
If times are feeling stressful, perhaps it's time to go back to God. Perhaps it's time to contemplate the beauty of the love that God has for us. This Lent, turn to God so that you can find more of this love that comforts us in all of our hardships.
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