You Can’t Handle The Truth!

Remember that cool line that Jack Nicholson said in “A few good men?” Tom Cruise was asking what had happened to a solider who died. Jack’s character didn’t want to tell them what happened because he felt they couldn’t deal with the truth of what happens in the military.

In today’s reading (Jeremiah 36) something identical happens. Jeremiah writes down the Word of God on a scroll and gives it to the evil King of Judah. What does he do with it? As he is listening to it read aloud he cuts off all the portions of the Word he doesn’t like. In the end, he cut the whole scroll a part and throws it in a fire. He couldn’t handle the truth of God’s Word.

Why is it that we tend to have certain portions of the Bible that we like and dislike. One easy answer is that maybe we think a certain portion is boring. Or is it because there is some truth behind what we are reading that we don’t want to deal with. So instead of burning it, we just don’t read it or meditate upon it. My challenge to myself is to look closely at those passages i don’t like much and really ask God to give me insight into his Truth!