Greg Peters Live

Do you remember the scene from A Few Good Men, where Tom Cruise says, “I want the truth!” and Jack Nicholson yells back, “You can’t handle the truth!”?

Well, that is me. Often times I don’t want the truth and I can’t handle the truth. Seldom am I honest or objective about myself – this is sad. The reason this is sad is because healing (emotional, relational, spiritual, etc) can’t happen apart from honesty. Healing and honesty work in tandem.

Psalm 51:6 says, “You desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place”.

The Lord desires for me to be honest with Him, others and myself. Yet I get defensive, I get deceived, I get distracted, etc. and I miss truth – sometimes intentionally and sometimes unintentionally.

While some of the things I have mentioned can get very discouraging, there are a couple things that encourage me this morning. First, according to Scripture, God desires to give us increased understanding. It is up to you and me to sincerely ask and sincerely seek for truth. Secondly, and I don’t know why I haven’t tapped into this one more, the Spirit of Truth resides in me (John14:16-17). According to our message this passed weekend, He is my possession. Have you ever possessed something and not used it – Hello!  Part of the Holy Spirit’s ministry is to produce honesty and truth within us – when we are yeilded to Him guess what he will do? He will produce honesty and truth!!! This causes me to be hopeful, amazed, thrilled, thankful and grateful! Now I must yeild to this work.

I have also discovered that where I am pushing back on truth is normally the area where I need it most.  Is there an area of your life where you are super sensitive, very defensive or unwilling to listen? Then the problem is, “You can’t handle the truth!”.

If you have no idea what I am talking about – well, Hello Mr. or Mrs. Ostrich, this is sand.