Face the truth!

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.
John 8:32

We fear the truth.
That's why people who suspect they are sick don't like to go to the doctor.
They don't want to hear the gruesome facts.
That's why people lie.
They fear that revealing the truth about themselves will only end up in being crushed.
Indeed, the basic fear about truth for many people is that truth is a sort of prison.
If we are faced with the facts, then lots of bad things will happen, we fear. Everybody will hate us if they find out the truth about us.
If God sees the truth about us, we fear, even he will give up on us.
And so we hide, like Adam and Eve in the Garden and God goes calling for us: "Adam, where are you?" But the stunning reality is that truth is nothing to fear.
It may hurt us a bit, this is true. But it will not harm us. It will set us free. For though we have much to want to hide, the astonishing and liberating message of Christ is that he already knows what we've done and he loves us full throttle anyway. There's no truth about ourselves or the world, no matter how embarrassing or difficult, he had not already had all eternity to consider before he willingly went to the Cross for us.

And there is nothing in heaven or earth that is greater than the truth of his love for us.