It is often said that the truth will set us free.
Indeed, the truth will set us free.
Because when we know the truth and the facts and the reality, then we know clearly enough how to respond to a matter or a situation.
Truth will also dispel all curiosity and speculation and we won’t be left wondering.
In the two readings of today, the prophets Jeremiah and John the Baptist proclaimed the truth to the people that God sent them to.
Both had to do it under hostile circumstances and the truth that they proclaimed were not readily accepted; in fact they were persecuted for it.
But what mattered for Jeremiah and John the Baptist was that in proclaiming the truth, they experienced the freedom that even enabled them to lay down their lives for the truth.
May we too live our lives in truth and with love.
We will be rewarded with a peace that only God can give.