Love the Truth

I accepted the Lord when I was 6.
I was raised in a home with the dominant religion being Hindu
but all eastern religions were welcome.
I went to Sunday School on the Bible school bus.
My mom thought all roads led to a good place.

When I was 18, I saw the feet of Jesus while praying at a Christian church
and He captured my heart.
Through that and other events, He showed me and reinforced
that He was the Living God and I have followed Jesus ever since.

At that first Christian church I became a part of,
there was a strong Christian lady named Lois who loved the Lord
and walked in the Truth.
I consider the most important truth she taught me
was that we need to love the truth far above our own thoughts.
She taught me that to do this, I must relinquish my own thoughts
and feelings and always put God’s word above my own.

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing
that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God,
and bringing into captivity
every thought to the obedience of Christ; 2 Corinthians 10:5

I decided to humble myself before the Lord
and love the truth above my own thoughts.
It was a very intentional choice I made
to value God’s word above my own thoughts and opinions.

Many times I prayed, ‘Lord, I feel this way and I know You are right,
please let me see things the way You see them.’

Time and time again, He showed me His ways.
I learned to lay down my lofty thoughts at His altar, at His feet,
and I would choose to put His thoughts above my own.

And with all the deceit of unrighteousness in those who perish,
because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,
that they should believe a lie,
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth,
but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

Following Jesus is loving the truth.
Following Jesus and His ways above one’s own self.
And never being ashamed of Jesus’ words, but rather loving them.

Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of Me and of My words
in this adulterous and sinful generation;
of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed,
when He cometh in the glory of His Father with the holy angels. Mark 8:38

Who wants Jesus to be ashamed of them before the Father?