By: Carole and Bruce Haines

The Truth Will Set You Free

                     ³¹ So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, ³² and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. (John 8:31-32 ESV)
 Yesterday I was sitting in a parking lot by my favorite waterfall. I had been driving for a couple of hours. I was trying to navigate the beautiful drive while suffering brain fog and drowsiness after my 5^th straight day of only 1 ½ hours of sleep.
Insomnia has become a real problem for me as I have gotten older. While sitting there, I was still in denial of just how dangerous it was for me to be driving in such a state of mind.
I closed my eyes to sleep a bit. I got a text from my beloved husband that he was on his way back home from visiting his elderly parents. I let him know that I was kind of a mess and needed to rest a bit before heading home.
Long story short, I kept telling Bruce “I’m fine, I’m fine. Everything is fine.
But I was endangering not only my own life but the life of everyone else on the road by driving in my insomnia induced state of tiredness.
Literally, I could have injured or killed both myself and others. When we don’t face the truth of what is really going on, we force everyone else in our lives to go through that lie with us. Whatever the motive is in our denial, it creates a bondage that inevitably will hurt others and ourselves. Truly, we must let Jesus show us the truth that can set us free. Only He knows what it is and only He can reveal it to us. The Truth is that apart from Jesus, we’re not fine.

Truth be told by Matthew West