[Discoveries] 02-28-07 Transforming truth

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/*The land we explored devours those living in it. -- Numbers 13:32*/

Where do you get the truth?

A number of years ago, I wrote an article for a business magazine. One 
of my sources was an attorney who asked me repeatedly if I was planning 
to quote him out of context. By the time I was finished interviewing 
him, I was afraid to quote him at all. At the time, his concern seemed 
strange to me. Why would I quote anyone out of context? Why would I try 
to skew anybody's words?

However, since then, I've discovered that he probably had good reasons 
for his concern. I've stopped trusting anything I read, hear or see in 
the news. It is far too easy to spin things, even when you don't realize 
it.

If we believe a lie, everything we see is distorted. So even when we 
think we're telling the truth, we are spreading lies.

This was the condition of most of those men who explored the land. They 
believed the lie that God was planning to abandon them to their enemies, 
so they were unable to see anything objectively. The richness and beauty 
of the land they explored was quickly obscured by their list of 
impossibilities.

The land, of course, didn't devour anybody. But this fabrication sprang 
directly from their firmly-held false beliefs.

For most of my Christian life, I didn't realize how foundationally 
important truth is. Here in this passage, a couple of well placed lies 
condemned over 600,000 men to death and stole 40 years of life from an 
entire nation.

Where do you get truth? Only from the One who is truth. Only He is 
objective. Joshua and Caleb viewed the same sights, but saw a different 
picture because they were looking through God's eyes. Likewise, as we 
receive truth from Christ, our whole world is transformed.

Be encouraged!
Dwight


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