By Aksel Smith Paul says: “For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.” 2 Cor. 13:8. Truth is the naked reality. In its light small things are small, great things are great, and deception is deception. For many people the truth is a terrible reality from which they hide their face. The truth is mercilessly cold; there is no poetry in it. It embellishes nothing; it lets everything be what it is. It is like a merciless tyrant who crushes all attempts at going beyond the bounds of reality. It puts everything in its place. It calls making something larger than it is a lie; making something smaller is also a lie. Everything outside the truth is deception; it is a mirage whose emptiness is revealed in the light of the truth. We can do nothing against the truth. Its scales are to be mercilessly exact, and everyone has to acknowledge it when life and its works will be weighed. No one can do anything against the truth. It continues on its victory march in spite of Satan’s and man’s energetic attempts at isolating themselves by enveloping you with Satan’s empty deception. However, we can do something for the truth. Why does anyone want to be deceived when one day he will have to meet the naked reality? The prudent person enters immediately into the Spirit of truth in Christ Jesus. There the truth will set everyone free who is bound and blinded by the strong and dark power of deception. There the light of the truth will shatter the darkness of the lie, so that the soul will receive a sense for giving everything its worth as the light shines and gives it its worth. To join forces with the truth is to join forces with God, that great fundamental truth from whom proceed an infinite number of expressions. The closer we are to this fundamental truth, the closer we are to God. The more power the truth has over us, the more power we have in it. Be not afraid of defeat when it is the truth that overcomes you. The victory of the truth is not your ruin but your exaltation, so you can walk in it. Entering into the truth means fighting against the lie. These two things are directly opposed to each other. Everything that can either be said or written is light or darkness, truth or lying. There is nothing in between. Therefore there will be a battle for the soul who enters into the truth; for the greater the light, the fiercer will be the battle. The number of enemies will increase in relation to the strength of the light. However, since the Spirit, the Spirit of truth that is in us is stronger than the spirit that is in the world, we have nothing to fear. A man who stands in the truth is invincible. They can kill his body, but Jesus says that we shall not fear such people. Therefore be not afraid of anyone who can kill the body. Every wise person and everyone who loves his soul presses into the fullness of the truth through Jesus Christ. Then you will not be deceived, neither here nor in eternity. Those who do not want to receive the truth will one day be awakened by the truth and see that in reality, they have been living in a deception; but then it will be too late to enter into the truth.