Words are so powerful. Moses said, life and death are in the power of the tongue. When we speak death over other people it literally puts venom in the atmosphere and it poisons us in a way that goes deep into our souls. When we speak truth to ourselves and over others we are literally putting hope into their innermost being. I got a message last night from someone who reads my blog on Facebook and she saw a typo in one of my posts and pointed it out to me. I was so thankful she saw what I couldn’t see or didn’t see. I responded to her and said thank you so much. She wrote back and said I am so glad you were not offended by my comments. Offended by the truth, really? Truth sets me free it does not offend me.

Truth and criticism or judgement are not the same. I am realizing judgmental people are not loving people, they are critical people. People that speak truth, do it to build the person up, because they see or hear something we cannot see or hear and they want us to be great so they speak the truth to us about us. There is a line in the movie “A Few Good Men” where Tom Cruise and a military general are in a courtroom, and it is said, “You can’t handle the truth.” It is said with authority, passion and literally stuns the courtroom. I know we all think we can handle the truth, but it is just not true. The truth is most people are not secure enough in who God says they are to handle the truth. Truth is not crititical it is to build you up, make you great, seal a crack in you.

Knowing who we are in Christ is what makes us able to handle the truth, speak the truth and be set free by the truth. Truth is not to tear you down, that is a critical spirit, a judgemental spirit and we are more used to that than truth, so we shy away from having someone tell us the truth. People don’t tell us the truth because they know we will resist them. Friends, if we are going to be a biblical bride we need to realize until we love truth, we will not see Jesus come again, because He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. He is truth and we are to love truth, so we can be a perfect match for Him.