Word for the Week: Eph 4:24,25 – be made new in the attitude of your minds, and put on the new self which is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Intro:
Hi, this is Dorette Schaal with your dayilyeword. We have been talking about how we can love more like Jesus, and have been going over the seven main characteristics of a loving person. I hope you are beginning to exhibit these seven: Kindness
Patience
Forgiveness
Courtesy
Humility
Generosity
And Honesty
So as a review and follow up, we are going to spend this week being encouraged and motivated to walk in love and demonstrate love as a way of life through honesty. Be encouraged today! We can make a lifelong impact on our world by loving others through being honest.
Live in truth! Doesn’t that sound like the best idea ever? I know in a real world where it is acceptable to distort the truth and to live in one’s own perception of reality, being a person who tells the truth and lives in truth is a rare thing. Let’s not make it a rare thing in our life. In John 8:32 it says that when we know the truth we know, the truth will set us free. The Message Bible says it this way, if we stick to what Jesus has told us, we are truly His disciples and we will experience the truth and the truth will free us. I think one of the most fabulous things about being a Christian is being able to experience freedom. When we realize that freedom in our lives is connected with truthful living, it should make us even more conscious of how we live our life. Honesty and a pure life go hand in hand. If we want to be clean before the Lord, our words, our actions and our thoughts are to be consistently loving. One thing I have discovered in my own life is that we never outgrow the desire to be told the truth. As children, we wanted to know the truth, will it hurt? will it be hard?, will you keep your promise? As adults we still want the truth. Will the product really do what you say it will?, are there any hidden charges?, will I have to receive emails from thousands of other companies because I purchased something from yours? Maybe you haven’t had that scenario happen to you, but some of us have. We believe the ad, and either we don’t get what we paid for, there are hidden charges that being showing up on your credit card statement, or you get more junk email than you ever wanted! And sometimes a virus in your computer as a bonus. Let’s not be like the world. We live a higher standard. Our standard is truth and honesty. Utter honesty is clearly refreshing in our world. Let’s be the ones that others say about us, they always are honest, if you need to know the truth, ask them, or their life is full of integrity and they are totally trustworthy. What a great reputation we can have if our words, thoughts and deeds are filled with truth and honesty.
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