The truth that brings life

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I remember when I started reading the evangelical Bible and I desired to meet Jesus.

I remember when I read this Word:

"Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
John 14: 6

I kept thinking: "Ok Jesus, I understood. I do want these things and mostly to go to the Father.
But how do I do to go to You? To find You? So that I may then get to the Father?

So I resolved to read this verse more and more until I understand it.
Then something came to my mind: "He is saying that He is the truth."
So I think that if I walk in the truth I'll be able to get closer to Him.
So the first thing I realized I needed to do was to stop lying. 

So there I went to tell my boyfriend at the time that I went on a date with someone else since I didn't really like him and that I had found out that he had another girlfriend.
Wow! What a relief it was to break up with him on that day!

I could practice a little bit of truth and stop walking in the lie!

But what I didn't realize was how challenging that decision to walk in the truth would be because that would demand a level of courage that I had never practiced before.

Because right after that I found myself in a situation:
I heard from the stairs of my grandmother's house my aunt oppressing the maid who worked there.

 That was already bothering me for some time, but because I wasn't in this thing of finding Jesus before, I used to live hidden in myself and wouldn't bring anything that I would feel to the outside. 

So on that day when I heard that, an explosive revolt accumulated within me and a courage full of fear took me, and I went with my heart racing to the kitchen to interfere in that situation.

 I got there and entered in the middle of the two and spoke a lot to my aunt. That she was only losing doing that and who was she to yell to the maid, etc, etc.
My aunt left running, entered in the car and left.
It looked like it worked. At least I felt a sensation of victory inside me.

 One more time, I did it! I did get closer to the truth so that I might find Jesus.

 The truth was to be faithful to myself without fearing men. It was to have courage to be authentic and to express that authenticity.

 So I wrote a letter to my grandmother telling her all of the times I lied to her.

 All of that started with this verse:

 "Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
John 14: 6

And with my will to meet Jesus.
"If Jesus is the truth then if I want to find Him I must walk in truth." - I thought to myself.

Little did I know that I was entering a journey that would change my life forever.

I wasn't going to evangelical churches yet, I didn't even like believers. But I had an evangelical Bible that I won from my mom.

And if there was a conviction inside me it was that I wanted to be with God.

 So in that verse, I found an instruction.
I found the way to God.

Today I know that the truth is something that until we get to heaven, it will always guide us to closer and closer to God. There is no limit (Besides heaven)

The Bible says that the truth sets free.
"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
João 8: 32

But not just that, the truth directs, protects, bases, illuminates, orientates, and it brings us peace. 

The truth is Jesus.
Every truth is Jesus. Every truth brings to Jesus.

So little did I know that I would not only meet Jesus if I stopped being a lier or stopped hiding who I truly was but that, doing that I was actually entering Jesus.

If Jesus is the truth, it's not that speaking and practicing the truth we only get closer to Him, we actually enter Him.

Then I knew that Jesus also is the very Word of God. Which is also the truth.

"Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth." 
John 17: 17

"He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God."
Revelation 19: 13

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 
He was in the beginning with God. 

 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 

 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 
And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it."
John 1: 1-5

After freeing myself from lying, I found one more little secret in that verse:

 "Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
John 14: 6

The new discovery now was that Jesus is the life.

I wanted that so badly.
Because I was alive but was unhappy. And if Jesus is the life I wanted to have a life.

I found out that practicing the truth I was entering life. In a true life.

This message is about the truth that brings life.

There is no life outside the truth. Because the truth is the life, and both of them are Jesus.

Besides these two things, Jesus is also the way, that is, the truth is the way to life.

The way, the truth, and the life are one. And these 3 things brings us to God. 
Each one of these things and them together are Jesus. And this is the way to God.

There is nothing better than finding out the truth. The truth with ourselves.
When we find ourselves and we have the courage to bring that person to the outside, we find true life.

We find light.

To walk in the light (which is the truth) it's the best feeling that exists in the world.
We walk full of authenticity, courage, joy, achievement, and Presence of God.

"Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life."
John 8: 12

So I would like to encourage you, with all my heart, because it's the best decision you can make in your life, to take off the lie.

Sometimes we don't even have the conscience that we need to do that.
We walk day after day as if it was normal to hide in a personality that it's not who we really are inside. I mean deep inside.

Maybe sooner or later we may explode, but when we make that decision of practicing the truth, everything starts to change.

Besides that, there is no life outside the truth. But a great imprisonment of unhappiness.
But only those who came out of that know that.

If you need a reason or a "why" to make this decision then use the same reason I did: To get closer to God. To go to heaven.

 "Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
John 14: 6

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