Lie, Lie, Truth.

Have you ever played the game 'Lie. Lie. Truth?  The gist is that you tell your opponent(s) three statements, two of which are not true and one of which is true. 

I might say 
1) I have eaten oysters
2) I have had blue hair
3) I have travelled in a helicopter

The game is to decide which is true from those three is true!  

The right way to play is to make the two lies as believable as possible.   That is how the world treats humans, presenting some things as though they are true, when they are not!

We (human beings) have some commonalities, regardless of where we live in the world.  We have basic physical needs (food, shelter, warmth etc) but beyond that we all desire significance, acceptance, and security. 

These are the very things the world plays on as it offers people it's own variety of wisdom and truth.  

It offers significance if we perform and attain enough accomplishments; it offers security of we advance in status and gain recognition and it offers acceptance if we look right and are properly admired.

The trouble is that if we accept the truth the world has to offer us we can never be satisfied with the outcome. 

1 John 2:15-17 (TPT) Don’t set the affections of your heart on this world or in loving the things of the world. The love of the Father and the love of the world are incompatible. For all that the world can offer us—the gratification of our flesh, the allurement of the things of the world, and the obsession with status and importance —none of these things come from the Father but from the world. This world and its desires are in the process of passing away, but those who love to do the will of God live forever.


The world offers things that appeal to our flesh, look desirable and drive us towards glorying in our self-sufficiency.  Instead, Romans 12: 2 tells us that we are to be transformed by the renewing of our minds.  


Seeing a breakthrough isn't about how much we do, or how we look or what we say, breakthrough comes as we line ourselves up with God's view of truth, a God-view instead of the World-View we've been exposed to. 


When we know the truth it sets us free to enjoy true freedom, true acceptance, true significance and true security.



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