In the movie, A Few Good Men, a top military commander is being questioned in a courtroom. He is being told he must tell the truth. He answers in a now famous statement, “You can’t handle the truth.” This statement is true of every one of us. Truth is both frightening and overwhelming. To know the truth means we are now responsible to measure up. It is the purpose of life to come to grips with the truth as God has revealed it to us. We may think we are fighting philosophies, religions, ideologies, but in reality they are mechanisms to cope with the truth we don’t want to face. Jesus said, “The truth will set you free.” We will stand before God’s court one day and we will be asked whether or not we received and obeyed the truth. Jesus said, “Light came into the world but mankind loved the darkness rather than the light.” Jesus came so we could face the truth, obey the truth, and live the truth. I know the Bible is God’s word because it is so contrary to human nature. Yet through Jesus Christ we are brought to the truth. If we surrender to it, a term the Bible calls repentance, we will be set free from theconsequences of living a lie. I have heard many times, church is for weak people. I believe the opposite is true. To join the church takes extraordinary courage and faith. We who follow Christ have faced the truth and have overcome all excuses, weaknesses, fear, and hypocrisies to love the truth and walk in it. The church encompasses people who are noble and brave. To walk outside the truth is to sin against God and all that is good. The truth is the highest morality and ethics. Truth is love, lived out every day. Truth honors God. Truth is loving God. Truth is loving one another as human beings. To not walk in the truth is to be found guilty, and we will one day be held accountable. We need forgiveness because of the suffering we have caused to others, and the violence we have done to God’s kingdom and purposes. We need forgiveness because of all the people we hurt by not walking in the truth. Jesus came to bring us the forgiveness we need so we can have a fresh start, walking in the truth. Ask Him to forgive you by His death on the cross and you will be forgiven and given power through His Spirit to walk in the truth.