The Truth Hurts, the Truth Heals, the Truth Sets Us Free

Lady Saffire BoVardia

Jul 03, 2025

Among the sayings that echo across cultures and centuries are three that pierce the human heart with paradox: “The truth hurts.” “The truth will set you free.” “Jesus is the only healer.” Taken together, they reveal a hidden path: truth wounds in order to heal, and through this healing, we find a freedom that nothing false can ever give.

The Sword of Revelation

When we say “the truth hurts,” we confess that much of life is lived under veils. We are masters of concealment; from others, from ourselves, even from the divine. We bury pain, excuse wrongdoing, justify illusions. Yet truth is relentless. It does not flatter. It cuts through the web of self-deceit. The ancient Scriptures describe it as a double-edged sword, dividing soul and spirit, bone and marrow, laying bare our inmost being (Hebrews 4:12)

Truth wounds precisely because it reveals what we would rather hide. However, this wounding is not a punishment. It is the first mercy. For what is hidden in darkness festers. What is brought to light can be healed.

The Liberating Balm

And so “the truth will set you free.” These words, spoken by Jesus (John 8:32), are not mere slogan but spiritual law. Lies enslave: they keep us bound to false identities, toxic patterns, secret guilt. Truth, once faced, unlocks the prison door. It costs us the comfort of illusion, but gives us the freedom of wholeness.

We cannot be truly free while living in lies about ourselves, our histories, our place in the world. The price of truth is pain but the reward is peace.

The Cosmic Healer

This is where the third saying finds its deepest root: “Jesus is the only healer.” He is not merely a wise teacher of moral truths. He is Truth embodied: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)

In saying this, Jesus did not merely claim exclusivity. He revealed a cosmic reality. For He also told us plainly that this world is not ruled by light but by darkness: “The whole world lies in the power of the evil one.” (1 John 5:19). He named the ruler of this world: Satan, the deceiver, the father of lies. This is the truth that wounds our pride, what we call civilization is, at its roots, corrupted and enslaving.

But it is also the truth that sets us free. For Jesus came to reveal the Father, not a tyrant god of fear, but the true God of Love. In Him, humanity is shown its Source: a Father who desires mercy, forgiveness, and intimate union with His creation. “Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.” (John 14:9)

The Way to the New Earth

To walk in His truth is to step off the path of this dying world. Jesus, Yeshua, the anointed one, opened the narrow gate into the Kingdom that is not of this world. He did not promise to reform this corrupted system but to call us out of it, to transform hearts and to prepare a people for a New Earth, a restored creation where truth, love, and justice reign without shadow.

His words echo through time: “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.” (Matthew 24:35). When this world collapses under the weight of its own lies, those who have embraced the truth, painful yet freeing, will stand in the light of the coming age.

Truth’s Final Mercy

In the end, truth always reveals its true nature: it wounds illusions but heals reality. It strikes the false self so that the true self might live. It exposes the world’s corruption so that we may inherit the world renewed.

The hands that wield this sword bear scars, for the Truth Himself was wounded for us and from those wounds flows the healing that no deception can ever imitate. The truth does hurt but only so that it can set us free. The One who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life stands ready to lead us home.

In Christ beloved