Gotcha

Remember that sick feeling you got inside last time you were caught. That gotcha caught ya feeling of being busted is a sickening feeling.  It's a mixture of shock, guilt, and fear.  It feels like emotional poison.

Reality checks and moments of truth also have a similar sting.

Moments of truth are often so shocking and painful that our hearts ache from the jolt of reality. Our world stops and we freeze inside from the shock. Thankfully, a loving Father provides a wonderful Comforter to help us with the cold, hard truth, not to hide from it, but to cope with it.

Sometimes the truth does hurt, but if someone says horrible things about you, it may shock you and hurt you, but that doesn’t necessarily make what is said about you true. What is said could be hateful lies, for that matter, and although shocking, shock value is no indication of truth. 

Sometimes God even shocks us with reality.  But, more often than not, Gods voice of truth is a voice of perfect mildness, it is a still small voice that whispers what is right.

Sometimes getting caught is the only way mortal prodigals can come to themselves.  Sometimes getting caught is the only way to get help.