Truth is a major tenet of conservative bent churches. It's promoted as it should be. We are each called to know it, believe it, abide by it. But one must be equally aggressive in refraining from flaunting it for such a stance is the trip-up which falls for hypocrisy.
In my early days of ministry, my efforts were based upon this concept of Truth. I assumed that I knew it. I surely defended what I knew as such was the clarion call of all Bible-packing students. As time moved along, however, I noted I was stuck upon the rocks embedded within my Scriptural River where Truth rambled downstream. Yes, I knew how to locate key verses; key, you understand, to defending my stance more than learning of His will.
Can one know Truth? Of course.
That's precisely why the Bible has been provided. And, from that Dynamic given from above, I see us given to a glut of information without hearts given to seeking transformation for a large percentage of our people. I don't mean to sound sarcastic nor negative. I do mean to say that our hunger and thirst for righteousness has been sabotaged by our own repetition to the point we hardly realize how cold some hearts have grown.
Such awareness does not throttle down our enthusiasm for the Kingdom life as if we are sunk. No, quite the contrary. This most definitely leads us to step up our drive for the eternal, the spiritual, the Son and His profound system.
Religion is drunk on argument. There is need for the sober (my own sobering included) recall that we are to go into all of the world with the Good News. Clearly the active going has been replaced by the inactive sitting by the many; by the masses. Our reach is too often found to be suffering paralysis.
There is ever the drastic need for creative imagination of glorious ways to reach, to teach, to convert hearts from self to Jesus. Religion won't do it. The Man will. There has long been a voice by our communities against organized religion. Yet, the replacement has basically been nothing more than self-centered me-ism.
Jesus is the Truth. He's the game-changer because He is the grave-breaker. May we concentrate on jumping the curb of the routine and driving out into the Soul-ar System of possibility which has always been intended and available for every one of us! We are not to be discouraged at how much Truth we do not yet know; but we are to be encouraged at how much bigger Truth is than our meager minds can grasp!
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