Truth or Consequences

Dear Husbands and Fathers, 

I got this idea from Beth Moore.  By way of disclaimer, Beth had no input in the following statements whatsoever.  Those are all mine. 

Beth taught, in one of her Bible Studies, that your truth, plus God’s truth equals liberty.  We all have a past.  Things we did or didn’t do.  Things that were done to us.  Mentors and hurts.  Baggage.  And, no, I don’t mean those sexy love handles.  Some of those things are good and some are bad.  Maybe some are evil.  If you try to look at your own truth, apart from His truth, you don’t have the whole picture.   The result?  You don’t have the whole truth.  And you don’t have liberty. 

Are you one of those guys who doesn’t ask for directions?  Once, in Georgia, a famous baseball player got stuck on the freeway.  This particular freeway goes in a complete circle.  He simply couldn’t find the exit and circled the city over and over again.  He missed the game!  I don’t care if you circle the Georgia freeway 15, 150 or 1500 times before you ask for directions…  But if you’re stuck in some bad pattern, or can’t seem to escape some devastating experience of your past, please, ask for directions.  Add God’s truth to yours, so you can experience liberty in Christ.  

Ephesians 1:15-23

15Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,

 16Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

 17That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

 18The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

 19And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

 20Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

 21Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

 22And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

 23Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

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