“The truth can hurt, but it is the only way... - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2026

Now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God.
John 8:40

"The truth can hurt, but it is the only way to cure us." This thought has been expressed in various ways, but nowhere is it so significant as in matters of faith. Jesus Christ always spoke the truth to people for this specific purpose: so that they might be "cured". He wished to save them from sin and its punishment.

Jesus placed people before the mirror of divine truth, so that they recognised what they really were like. He told them bluntly where their objectives and their way of life were inconsistent with God's will. No doubt it hurt them, but it was the starting-point for finding salvation in Christ.

The religious leaders of the people, the Pharisees and scribes, on the other hand, utterly rejected this beneficial process. One particular saying of Jesus applied so aptly to them: "Everyone practising evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen that they have been done in God" (John 3:20.21). Finally those Pharisees planned to kill Jesus for telling them the truth.

Through the crucifixion of Jesus the truth about mankind in fact came to light even more clearly. Man who has fallen into sin is an enemy of God, even if God approaches him in His Son in "kindness and love toward man" (Titus 3:4).

Whoever willingly accepts the truth that God tells him concerning his life acknowledges God's inconceivable love in giving His Son to be crucified for us.

Today's reading: Judges 10:1-18 · 2 Corinthians 10:1-11