Where is Truth?

All God's revelations are sealed until they are opened to us by obedience.

You will never get them open by philosophy or thinking.

Immediately you obey, a flash of light comes. 

(Oswald Chambers: My Utmost for His Highest)

 

Blessed art thou, Simon Peter, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven (Matt. 16:17).

 

I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.  But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth (Jn. 16:12).

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Truth is to be found in relationship to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit -- and All of the Trinity desires mankind to know the Truth that will set us free. 

 

One of the things that most attracted me to my husband was the insights he had, the truth he spoke.  Although he did not speak readily or often, when he was asked about something, his words carried more wisdom than those of most other people I knew.  I was fascinated by his understanding of the way things work.  If the cartoons are any indication of human nature, people will often climb the highest mountain or go to the ends of the earth to receive wisdom and understanding -- yet both are offered to us by the Holy Spirit.

 

Once we set our minds and hearts to seek wisdom and understanding, it will be given to us: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks, the door will be opened (Luke 11:9-10).

 

We have not been told to seek out the wisest person on earth or to sit at the feet of the Buddha or Hare Krishna; we have been told to love Jesus, who will manifest Himself to us (Jn. 14:21).  And if we believe Him, we know that He is The Truth that we seek.  We know that the people of Jerusalem were drawn to Jesus by His wisdom and understanding, just as I was first attracted to my husband by his wisdom and understanding.  The people of Jesus' day asked, "Where did this Man get this wisdom?  Is His mother not Mary and His father Joseph?"   To human eyes, there was simply no explanation for Jesus.  It takes revelation to know that Jesus is "more than a carpenter" from a good family.  And that revelation is given from above, to those who ask.

 

Wisdom extends itself to every aspect of our lives; it begins in the spirit and pours itself out into the mind and the emotions, even to our very bodies themselves.  Very often, I have asked for wisdom about my health, or about a problem facing me, and I have always received the most amazing answers.  Once we know that God is not a grudging giver toward us, but freely and graciously wants to give us wisdom and understanding about even the smallest aspects of our lives, we begin to rejoice in seeking and finding wisdom.  James says this:

 

If anyone lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him (1:5).

 

I often tell my 11th-grade students that if they want to question their faith, they should go ahead and do so --- as long as they question God Himself.  If we want to know the Truth, we need to go to the Source of Truth, Who does not mind us asking and Who will always show us the Way.