The Truth of God for a Lie
How many times have you chosen to serve or bow down to something or someone other than God? How many times have you traded the good things of God for the garbage of this world? I’ve gotta tell you, I’ve done it thousands, probably millions of times.
I’ve had this thought in my head for the last couple of months. I’ve been playing back this one sentence from Romans 1 over and over. When I’m thinking about all of the stresses of this life that are weighing on me like a ton of bricks, I think about the lies that are behind that stress. I miss the beauty of the truth of God in the mess of life, when fact of the matter is that the truth of God is the beauty of the mess. Often I talk with people who wonder why bad things happen to good people or why if God called them to do something then why are they struggling financially or physically or emotionally? God never said it would be easy. He never said it would be without trials. In fact, he guarantees that there will be. The truth of the matter is that in the face of those trials is where the beauty of God’s Kingdom is found. I think about our own situation, our own mess. I go back and forth in my mind with God about what He wants us to do here. I struggle with trading the truth of God in the beauty of the mess for the lies that the world and those around me are telling me. We knew coming in that it would be hard and I’m stepping it up big time. I’m pressing on, I’m living in the beauty of the mess. I reflected on this beauty the other day when I was on break at work. I was sitting in a break room with a guy in a wheelchair who is from Haiti, a Chinese girl and a Puerto Rican girl and we were all talking to each other. I glimpsed the Kingdom in that moment.
Exchanging the truth of God for a lie can look different for everyone. It could be the porn addict exchanging the truth of God for the lie that the woman/man on the computer screen wants them. It could be the work-a-holic that trades his family for cash. It could be the school kid who cheats on the exam.
For me, it is the things of my past that I exchange for the truth of God. I’m letting go. I’m trading in the lies for the Truth. Going back into the beauty of the Truth.
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