What do I mean by living truth, and why would I build an entire website devoted to the topic? The answer is simple. For 30 years I did the opposite of living truth. I traded truth for lies. But God, rich in mercy, called me out of darkness and into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9). I am now dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus (Romans 6:11). My prayer is that His work in my life would encourage at least one woman to reject the lies of the world for the truth found in God’s Word.
Early Life
When I was about 8 years old I said a prayer at a Christian summer camp asking Jesus to come into my heart. Soon after that I was baptized, and my family and I began attending a local church. However, a few years later something happened inside our church, and we stopped attending. After a short time of visiting other churches, my family decided we would follow Christ on our own.
I want to start by saying that I don’t blame my parents for this. God had another plan for us in His timing. I might blame it on the lack of discipleship in my parents’ lives. I remember my dad in his 60s telling me that no pastor had ever told him to read his Bible.
Needless to say, after leaving the church, I was not following Christ. My knowledge of who God is came from the couple of years I attended Sunday school. For instance, I knew David slayed Goliath, but I didn’t know David became a king. I had no idea who God was, what He wanted from me, or where to find Him.
I still called myself a Christian. I carried that title like a get out of hell free card. No one ever taught me that God was not just my Savior in death. He was to be my Savior from sin and Lord of my life. I know now that you can’t have one without the other. If I had died within the first 30 years of my life, I would have been separated from God for eternity. I can say that with joy because God is sovereign, and that was not His plan for my life.
God’s Plan
A little over 10 years ago I received an invitation in my mailbox to a local church. I remember it like it was yesterday. I held on to that card for several weeks before my husband and I decided to attend. During one of the first sermons, the pastor said, “Do you want to know who God is? Do you want to know what He wants for your life?” And he held up a Bible and said, “It’s right here.” I thought to myself, I have several of those and I haven’t read a single one of them. From that moment forward, by the work of the Holy Spirit, I began to view God’s Word rightly.
And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers. 1 Thessalonians 2:13
In that moment I committed my life to the Lord and was forever changed. I couldn’t wait to get my hands on God’s Word and learn more about Him. God brought Godly women into my life to teach me how to study His Word and apply it rightly. That’s when I began to see how much of what I believed previously was a lie.
Walking in Truth
For years, I believed the world over the Word. As a result, I struggled with anxiety, depression, and anger. I valued success over marriage and raising children. I found my identity in all the wrong things. I felt discontent with my life and struggled to find purpose. I was truly living in darkness and dead in my sin.
Accepting the Holy Bible as the Word of God led me to seek God’s Word with all my heart. It gave me the desire to abide in the truth found in Scripture. This means not only filling my mind with God’s Word, but allowing it to transform my affections. Seeing God’s Word rightly led me to accept direction and correction because I take seriously the warnings found within Scripture.
I know so many professing Christians who fall victim to the lies of the world everyday. They believe sin is harmless and that God has not called them to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age. (Titus 2:11-12) These are lies that the world tells us.
Set Apart in Truth
Before going to the cross, Jesus prayed, “Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.” John 17:17-19
If Jesus thought it so important to pray that His people be sanctified – set apart – in truth then we must have a great desire to know that truth and to live it out in our daily lives.
I hope you will join me on this journey of seeking God with all your heart, abiding in His Word, and living truth. This is truly how we are salt in a broken world.
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Anchored To Truth
Be sure to check out Anchored To Truth – Foundations of the Faith Bible Study starting October 14, 2025. Each of the eight lessons in this study explores a different truth found in Scripture and why that truth is foundational to our faith. Each month when I launch a new lesson, I will share with you here the lies that I once believed over these foundational truths.