March 24, 2021
Wenezde for Lent Week Five
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Jesus tell those Jews wey believe in am, “If una remain for my word, una go truly be my disciples, and una go sabi di truth, and di truth go set una free.” John 8:31–32
These words fit change our lives in deep way. Notice say Jesus talk these words “to those Jews wey believe in am.” That na, those wey don accept His word and so be His true disciples. We wey believe in Jesus too suppose think about these words well. This teaching get two main points: you must come to “sabi di truth” so that di truth wey you come sabi “go set you free.”
This teaching of Jesus dey help us in special way, both for our mind and for our spiritual life. First of all, if we look only at how di mind dey work, truth na one of di things wey dey help our mind stay healthy pass. Most times, when person dey struggle with different kinds of depression, na because confusion dey for how di person dey see some parts of im life. “Why this person do me like this?” Or “How I go ever take get through this?” Or “My life don scatter and no way dey out.” These thoughts and other ones like dem go surely lead to depression for one simple reason: dem dey come from wrong thinking.
One of di best ways to counsel person about problems of di mind na wetin we fit call “treatment with truth.” Every question wey we get because we don lose hope, and every conclusion about life wey don make our heart heavy, na things we must look at again according to how God dey think. Wetin God dey think? Wetin dey God’s mind about this matter? Those truths wey we never discover na di truth wey “go set you free.” E dey easier to overcome depression when we look at our life di way God dey look at am. This dey bring hope, and hope dey free us from di chains of depression and confusion.
For our spiritual life, these same principles even apply more. We must sabi di truth about sin, forgiveness, salvation and Heaven deeply, and accept am fully. When we deny di truth about sin or forgiveness, we dey live inside lie, and that lie still dey hold us. Di true spiritual freedom wey dey lead to salvation and life forever for Heaven na only when we accept with all our heart di holy and perfect spiritual truth wey God give us that we fit get am. We must clearly sabi our sin, repent and turn from am to God, seek God’s forgiveness, change our way of life and live di new life of grace wey God dey call us to live.
Today, think deeply about this teaching of Jesus wey get power to change life: “sabi di truth, and di truth go set you free.” Which truths about your mind and your spiritual life you need to sabi more deeply? Which confusion or blindness still dey? Seek di healing wey di Truth, as e dey for God’s mind, dey bring, and know say freedom dey wait for you.
God of all Truth, Your Word dey set us free, dey change us and dey fill us with hope. Make I turn my mind to You and to Your holy Word, so that I go sabi di Truth as You dey speak am, and allow that Truth wey dey change life to set me free. Jesus, na You I trust.
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