HONESTY IN RECOVERY – HONESTY IN LIFE
Honesty, is it always the best policy? I guess that would to depend on who you ask or what the circumstances are. If we can talk honestly about ourselves to another person with an attitude that shows sincerity and accountability, we have then given credit to “honesty is always the best policy” theory. It helps not only us to be free, but, the other person(s) so that everyone can make an informed decision.
It’s a deep form of deception to be “led” to believe one thing, when in reality something else is true. And assuming is even more dangerous, because it takes the reality and responsibility away from not only the other person, but yourself as well. Often leading us down a slippery path to codependency, enabling, victimization, self-righteousness and martyrdom to name a few. I have always said; “The one thing about the truth that you can never take away from it, is it’s ALWAYS fair. It may bring disappointment, happiness, loss, gain, sadness or joy, but, it’s always fair, because then at least we know who and what we are dealing with.”
In a society where the truth is a deception and deception is reality, we are treading on thin ice. The world today is fragile and fractured in many areas of the pond. We refuse to implement a reasonable level of accountability that gives a person self-esteem, worked for dreams and an understanding of a good conscience and character. Like blades on the skates of our life, these thing are getting duller, and duller and the mention of them turns you into some sort of judgmental hypocrite! I often wonder how God feels about these things. For those who deny His existence (except for when all hell breaks loose), it doesn’t really matter. Usually because either they are their own God, an entity unto themselves, or someone or something is in the natural world.
Here’s a news flash for all of us, He does think and have feelings about everything. It all matters, but, His truth matters most of all, because He is truth. Until we can resign ourselves with a willing spirit to the ONE Who is the creator of all things, we live in many different layers of dishonesty. Does it mean we are all nothing but liars? No, but, we are well to remember we are conceived in sin, born in sin, live in and die in sin. Which in short was the only reason for the Cross and Jesus Christ. We are by nature thanks to our original ancestors, Adam and Eve, bent towards a sinful nature where the seed of deception and lying is part of our being.
However, we can either feed that seed until becomes a strangling vine that chokes out the good planted in us by God. Or we can dig deeper into the soil of our being and take a hold of a stronger root, God’s original ordained goodness for His creation mankind and flourish. Until we see things and people for who and what they really are and not in our humanness what they want them to be. We will never be able to be honest with ourselves or anyone else for that matter. First we must sit before the God of the Heavens, the sky above and open ourselves up to transparency of what He already knows. But is waiting for us to be a pane of glass before Him so that we may look out and see His world and not our own or the misleading way of the natural life.
May God Bless, Comfort and Lead You Today and The Rest of Your Life,
Colleen L. Bruce
