Good morning! It’s Wednesday, August 6th, 2025.
You ever notice how everyone today has their truth? Scroll for five minutes and you’ll see: “I’m living my truth.” Or, “You have your truth, I have mine.” But what happens when your truth and my truth don’t agree? Someone’s going to be offended—and Jesus seems fine with that. Because He doesn’t offer a version of the truth. He says, “I am the Truth.” And it challenges us to wrestle with the truth we live by.
Today's Reading:
Habakkuk 1,2,3; John 8
Scripture
“So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, ‘If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.’” (John 8:31-32 ESV)
Observation
Jesus doesn’t offer personalized truth. He offers The Truth—Himself.
That’s what the Pharisees missed. They heard the truth; they met the truth, but they didn’t want it. And the longer Jesus spoke, the tighter they clenched their fists. They wanted the benefits of being right without the cost of being wrong.
Truth always brings us to a crossroads: it will either offend us or free us, but it will never flatter us.
Application
There are places in my life where I nod at truth but don’t live by it. I know what Jesus says about anxiety, forgiveness, pride, money, holiness, and I know how to be easily offended and justify it as righteous indignation.
That’s not freedom. It’s spiritual procrastination.
The test of discipleship isn’t whether I can quote Scripture—it’s whether I let it contradict me. Let it change me.
The Pharisees could recite truth but couldn’t receive it. I never want to skip over a verse just because I know it’s aimed at me! I want God’s Word to confront my comfort. I want to stop, listen, and let it change me. That’s where freedom begins.
Prayer
Lord, I don’t want to weaponize Your Word against others while excusing myself. Show me where I’ve been nodding at truth but not living by it. I want to know truth. I want to abide in it. Build my life on it, even when it breaks something I’ve built. I want Jesus to be the Truth I live by. Amen.
—Chris Kiriakos