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Align with Reality: A Case for Telling the Truth
Weekly Edition #21: June 18th, 2025
Verse I Like:
“Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body.”
Weekly Dose
Challenge: Do not tell a lie, no matter how small, for 3 whole days.
See the effects that this will have on your life. Be 100% honest, and watch how things open up to you.
At the core of it all, truth isn’t just morality, it is alignment. When you decide to take the truth as your creed, you make the decision to match your words and actions with reality. The alignment brings about clarity, direction, and purpose.
When you lie, even in an attempt to spare feelings, you create a dissonance between the reality of you and the appearance of you. This gap divides you and ‘muddy’s the water.’ It becomes increasingly difficult to know your own values, desires, or direction.
A house divided cannot stand.
You may be afraid of telling the truth in the moment, but this is just a framing issue. Start fearing what will happen if you lie over an extended horizon. Seriously consider it. That should be your source of fear.
Commit to the challenge and watch the truth reveal opportunities, establish connections, and dissolve obstacles. Truth rarely yields comfort, but it guarantees movement—and that movement forward is a powerful act of liberation.
Quotes I Like:
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
“Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.”
Mane Message
Telling the truth is daunting, often because it removes our spin from the details, thus seemingly stripping us of our power over reality. Whether you are aware of it or not, when you lie, you are lording yourself as master over reality, or at least master over the reality of the person being lied to.
But telling the truth does not leave you defenseless as it often seems, but rather aligns you with reality. You no longer need to be wholly dependent on your own abilities and proclivities. The truth steadies you. Lean into the truth.
In Ephesians, Paul refers to truth as a piece of armor—a belt, specifically—that one takes up for defense. This metaphor isn’t just poetic. It reveals something essential: the truth is not merely a risk to take, it’s a covering. It protects. It braces you, holds everything else together, and prepares you to stand firm.
So how do you begin to align yourself with the truth? Dr. Jordan Peterson speaks about this often—truth as the path through chaos. The truth is the best possible way out of your circumstance, even if it is the hardest. Lying might feel like a shortcut, but it’s a trap. Truth, on the other hand, is the long, uphill road—but it’s the one that leads out.
Deny what is comfortable in the pursuit of what is real. Don’t settle for ease when truth offers freedom.
Weekly Ponder
Are you relying on your own cleverness to manage your reality, or are you letting the truth defend and guide you?
What version of yourself are you preserving by avoiding the truth—and is that version actually serving you?
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