Sincere Truth

Those who walk in darkness are made aware of their imperfection through the revelation which God has placed in the hearts of all men. Pride keeps us from admitting our failures not only to meet God’s perfection, but to also mask them from others who may discover our weaknesses and use them against us. In their hearts they compare themselves to others hoping to find faults in them, that they may convince themselves against the conviction of their conscience that they are somehow better. We are so eager to point out the shortcomings of others, when we are ourselves cannot do that which is right apart from the life of God that resides within us when we abide in Him.

God only wants us who are imperfect to admit our failure in the Light of His word that we might become perfected in Christ. He knows all things, including the dark secrets we hide away in our hearts, yet calls us to Himself that He might display His love to us through His grace which is Christ. We know that we are imperfect and do not live to the standard that God calls us to be perfect as He is perfect. Yet in Him we can do all things. God calls us to a perfect standard and live in perfect love for one another, yet the more we try to do it, the more we deny the sufficiency which is found only in Christ. For it is only in Him that we find our forgiveness, our righteousness, our life and hope.

He didn’t come to find fault in us or to judge us for what we have done, but that He alone might bring us to Himself in a way in which He would receive all the glory. It was the Father who declared that it would be through the seed of Abraham that salvation would come, and so it was revealed by the grace and truth which came to the world in Christ. Christ lived the perfect life we are called to live, and was tested in every way as a testimony to us the truth that was in His word, and too His sufficiency as to our perfection in Him. He calls us, that we might be declared right before God in Christ who died in our stead and who now lives to pave the way… not only to expunge away that which separates us from God, but to be our very source of life.

You… Do not be afraid of what this world may do to you. Or how it may judge you a failure by standards it too cannot meet itself, and now lives in constant fear that its own weaknesses may be revealed. Know that God knows all things and doesn’t judge you, but wants to do all things and be all things to you. You feel a tug on your heart to do what is right yet cannot apart from Christ, and He was willing to give of Himself completely even to the death of His Son that you too might be made alive in Christ as He was made alive and will never die again. Tell him you have failed and that you accept His way, giving up of yourself that you might now live for Him and by Him, and be made perfect in Him. He promises that if we were to lose our life (to discount our ability to do anything as to our perfection, relying instead on Christ for all things) for the sake of His name, then we will gain it again unto eternal life.

The choice is yours… you have seen the Light of His word and have heard the way unto salvation; you need only answer His call and be set free from the power of this world, and be made alive in Christ who gave Himself for you. God’s judgment has been reserved for those who reject His Son; for those seeking to be become right before Him by their own way, and in their own ability in a prideful attempt to prove that they are worthy; all the while hiding their faults hoping to keep them hidden in darkness. Inside they know that they have sinned, and are afraid of the Light for they would have to admit their failure, yet if they would only come into the Light and know the love of God, they would find their life in Him and be truly set free.

John 3:17 ESV- For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:19-20 ESV – And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.

John 3:21 ESV – But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.