Freedom

In the last several months, I have seen, more clearly than ever, that our ability to function in human relationships is most severely impaired when we embrace lies about ourselves --- Lies that have come to us through others, lies that we impose on ourselves, and lies that have been reinforced and empowered by the Father of Lies.

Those lies become our prison, and we cannot move beyond their walls until we acknowledge that the lies are there, and that we empower them by believing them. I've also become convinced that the only way out of that prison is to ask Jesus, who is Truth, to expose the lies, demolish the lies, and replace them with truth. And that truth is only clearly known by the One who fashioned us in His own image. The truth about us cannot be found in any other source than our Creator.

In the simplest way possible, this describes the struggle between light and darkness that we find in the Gospel of John and in the 1st letter of John in the New Testament. Jesus is the light that shines into our darkness.

I also think the simplicity of this is what proves to be most scandalous to us when we are deceived. We think, "It can't be that easy." But what is easy about facing delusions and desiring, at all costs, to know the truth and be free?