OUCH! That HURTS!

Have you ever heard the saying, "The Truth Hurts"?

We face an incredible challenge in today's world to seek what is right and to do it while the world tells us that nothing is inherently right or wrong. We are in a world where 'any thing goes'. Our wrong doings are easily justified into believing it is OK or it is our right.

I believe the closer we get to God and study His Word the more we are convicted and learn exactly what is right and what is wrong and sometimes the truth, HURTS! In fact, the truth can hurt so much that a lot of society decides to not even look at it. It is easier to just go about our own sinful way, allowing the world to justify it as OK.

Hebrews 4:12 states, "For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart."

OUCH! Sharper than any double edge sword?

No wonder it sometimes hurts to see and hear the truth.

God's word penetrates to divide joints and marrow.

Bone marrow is a flexible tissue found in the hollow interior of the bone. Often times bone marrow is extracted from a healthy donor in order to give to a person with a decrease in the production of platelets or blood cells. Harvesting bone marrow is done through inserting a large needle into the hip bone to extract the cells from within the interior of the bone.

God's truth often times is knocking on the hardness of our bone in order to get into the interior, hollow parts of our souls to extract and bring to the surface sinful thoughts. The extraction is painful and we loose what we once were hiding within the hollowness of our hearts.

This week we are looking at Philippians 4:8 and yesterday we focused on the words true and noble, today we move to the second leg of the passage, 'whatever is right'.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

Websters defines right as being in conformity with moral law, standards or truth. What is the moral law of the world? What are the world's standards?

Scripture often uses right in conjunction with 'just' and is applied to what is considered just through God's evaluation or what should be done to please God in a particular situation. As we learn and apply God's standards to our lives we often times find ourselves giving up things that we once deemed 'acceptable', justified by the world's standards.

Whenever a questionable thought comes into your mind, ask yourself if the results of the thought would be pleasing to God. No one else know your thoughts but God. No one else but God can see into the hollowness of your heart. God reveals to us through His Word what is right and what is wrong. The truth is clearly evident and it's extraction can hurt! However, like bone marrow new platelets and blood cells are produced to replace the ones loss. God wants our old selves to be extracted and replaced with the new, modeled and formed to His likeness.

Blessings,

Jill