The truth is uncomfortable to speak sometimes let alone hear. There are biblical truths that are frightening even for a Christian. Because the truth must be told however, it is imperative – if we claim to love someone – that we speak in truth.
Jesus always spoke the truth. He only said what He heard His Father saying. He told the truth, as uncomfortable and frightening as it was, to everyone and He spoke it always.
As a new Christian, the Book of Revelation was just that to me – a revelation. What I was able to understand horrified me regardless of the happy ending. As I grow, I realize that people need to understand the truth in order to make informed decisions and choices about where they will spend eternity.
No one knows “when” – only the Father. After studying the books of Revelation, Daniel, and Ezekiel in particular, one can see that the labour pains have started. Who knows if the times we are going through are false contractions or the real thing? What is important however is the fact that He will come like a thief in the night so people need to be prepared.
He told us to preach the gospel to all nations. Salvation and redemption are not just about sins being forgiven and receiving blessings; we need to be doers of the word and not just hearers. Christ did what He saw His Father do and then told us to do the same and that means speaking the truth.
It’s one thing to share the gospel but to share it in its entirety is crucial lest our hands be soiled with someone else’s blood. The writing is on the wall, but not everyone has eyes to read it – that’s where we come in.
Do you share the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
“Immediately, the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw the hand as it wrote. The king’s color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together, . . . then all the king’s wise me came in, but they could not read the writing or make known to the king the interpretation ... this is the interpretation of the matter: Mene, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; Tekel, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting,” Daniel 5:5-6, 8, 26-27.
