Our minds are made to apprehend TRUTH, and so we rejoice to find truth; when we "see" it, and recognize it, we leap for joy, so to speak. Integrity means embracing the truth with our whole being---mind, emotions, body---that is, living in the truth and living out the truth with all that is ours.
That is why the truth makes us free--we no longer live enslaved, in fear, to anything else; the opinions of other men, power, wealth, etc. Everything we are serves only the truth. And the truth is that we belong to God; we have come from Him and are returning to Him. When we venture from that path toward something else we live out a lie, and the truth is not in us.
Jesus told the Pharisees that they were not sons of God, but that their father was the Devil, the father of lies. And why? Because they appeared to be on the path to God, but in reality they desired something more than God; they desired the approval of other men; they desired positions in Israel; they desired "learning" in the sense of "being learned" more than they desired a relationship with God.
The reason Jesus "taught with authority" was that His only desire was not to please men, or even to please Himself, but only to please His Father. His words were not His own, but were given to Him in an exchange of love and knowledge with the Father. And He embraced ("ate") the words as they were given to Him. He conformed His entire life to the TRUTH: He knew where He had come from and where He was going, and He took no side paths along the way.
Set our lives along Your path, O Lord, and give us the grace to follow it faithfully.
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