Choose Wisely, Choose Truth

The Truth has always been there, but it’s up to you to find Him.

October’s Awakening, Day 7:

The gulf between knowledge and truth is infinite.

 -Henry Miller

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

 -C. S. Lewis

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Hebrews 13:8 NIV

            Our understanding and knowledge of ourselves and the universe is constantly changing as we continually make new discoveries and correctly place more pieces into the puzzle. Our knowledge base is forever in a state of advancement and flux, but Truth is and always will be, the same yesterday, today, and forever. We are constantly transforming and maturing and gaining understanding, but Truth has been there from before time and creation itself.

            If you’re searching and seeking to find the answers as to why you are here, if you’re looking to find peace and solace in this frantic world, if you’re contemplating the deep mysteries of your inner self; then first seek out the Truth and you will find that the answers are all there.

Truth Is Eternal

Truth stands eternal. You can discount it, discredit it, or flatly deny it, but in the end, there it still is. What will you do with it?

October’s Awakening, Day 6:

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. Ignorance may deride it. But in the end, there it is.

 -Winston Churchill

The primary object in life should not be about one’s ego or status; the drive should be to struggle over truth so that we can know Him on a deeper level.

 -Dr. A. G. Walp, “Resurrection (Fact or Fiction)”

            In the end, truth remains. It matters not if we’ve disbelieved it, undermined it, criticized it, or blatantly rejected it, truth is not going away, nor can it ever be extinguished. We cannot make truth conform to us, we must conform to truth. We must know it, understand it, believe in it, trust in it, and follow it throughout our lives.

            Make it your life’s goal to search for it deeply, find it, and embrace it. Do you know the truth? Are you earnestly seeking it, or are you simply avoiding it? One day you will have to confront it head-on. Is your spirit ready?

What Is Truth?

It is the Man who is before you and the Spirit who lives inside you.

October’s Awakening, Day 5:

Pilate asked, "Quid est Veritas?" ("What is truth?") In Latin the answer is an anagram, "Est Vir qui Adest" ("It is the Man who is before you.").

 -Author Unknown

Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.” “You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” “What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him. John 18:33,36-38 NIV

Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: jesus of nazareth, the king of the jews. Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek. John 19:19,20 NIV

            An anagram is simply a word, or phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters or parts. This is quite interesting and profound, this “play on words”; and even though it is not precisely what the Scriptures relate, the meaning is clearly the same. True also is the fact that Latin, Greek, and Aramaic, were the languages in use in this region at that time, and Pilate, being Roman, assuredly knew Latin, even though Greek and Aramaic were the predominant spoken languages. Regardless, in all God’s languages, Truth is the Man on the Cross.

Discover Your Spirit

God’s ultimate perfection and the most miraculous of His created order is your spirit within you.

October’s Awakening, Day 4:

Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, yet pass over the mysteries of themselves without a thought.

 -Augustine of Hippo

            We should now add to Augustine’s observation, man’s incessant search of the universe for intelligent life and life itself. It is amazing that we are the epitome of perfection in God’s creation hierarchy, yet we do not really even understand the intricacies of our own inner workings. Our physical and mental nature are difficult to fully comprehend indeed, but our spiritual nature is almost a complete mystery to us, even to the most spiritually-minded. We need to focus a bit more introspectively and discover the miraculous within.

Truth in Flashes

Flashes of His glory bring us His Truth.

October’s Awakening, Day 3:

Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven. 

 -Henry David Thoreau

I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

1 Corinthians 15:50-53 NIV

For the Son of Man in his day will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other. Luke 17:24 NIV

            Knowledge truly does come to us from heaven in flashes of light – flashes of His light of glory. When the light inside your mind comes on, don’t you often wonder if it was Him? Faith and light-speed go hand-in-hand, as He reveals His wonders of creation and the mysteries of life. Since our spirits can entwine, information transfer is immediate, not limited to space and time as our physical nature is.

            Our physical nature is soon to be transformed and changed, too, from perishable to imperishable, from corruptible to incorruptible, and from mortal to immortal. That’s what happens at the Rapture as 1 Corinthians 15:50-53 tells us. If the Rapture leaves you behind, you still may have a chance to see Him come again, at His Glorious Appearing (Luke 17:24), when every eye will see Him like lightning that fills the sky. Just make sure this time you’ve chosen wisely – choose Him.

Logic and Proof Are Not Enough

If God doesn’t exist, then why are we all looking for Him?

October’s Awakening, Day 2:

Logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence.

 -Charles F. Kettering

Truth is bigger than proof. 

 -Dr. Michael Guillen, “Amazing Truths – How Science and the Bible Agree”

            You would think that logic is a pure methodology of reasoning and that it would be able to make sense of the complexities of scientific thinking. Yet, even when applied to the purest science of mathematics, it is only effective in basic mathematical functions and fails and falls apart miserably in the proof of any higher level mathematical equations. Yes, it can be useful, but it is also very limited.

            That is why truth is greater than proof. There are many truths out there in our universe, and many truths within the depths of ourselves, all placed there by our Creator who is Truth. We cannot prove that He even exists, but then again, if He doesn’t, why has all mankind from the beginning of time been looking for Him? What has been uniquely imparted into our very essence that we should want to know Him and find Him and why? There is obviously no evolutionary reason for this as why should we “waste” so much of our time and resources on “religion”?

            We have been created in His image, with a spirit that was designed to be connected with His Spirit. Whether we acknowledge it or not, our spirit needs Him and without Him, our spirit will keep searching and searching and never be satisfied till it finds Him.

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Believe, That You May Understand

If you’re waiting for the proof, you will never arrive. Have faith, believe, and then you’ll understand.

October’s Awakening, Day 1:

Therefore, seek not to understand so that you may believe, but believe that you may understand; for 'unless you believe, you will not understand.'

 -Augustine of Hippo, citing Isaiah 7:9b

If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.’ ” Isaiah 7:9b NIV

Faith and Reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth. 

 -Pope John Paul II

            If you are waiting for the proof before you believe, you will never arrive. Our human ability to reason and understand will only take us so far. Even then, oftentimes, what we think is true or has been proven by science is overturned at the next unimaginable and unforeseen discovery. Our knowledge and understanding of the truth of the universe is imperfect, and mistakes and misinterpretation of the data will always take place. Although this knowledge, perception, and understanding of our infinitely complex world are continually increasing, we will never become all-knowing like God.

            Faith is that other wing which we must latch onto to soar to the heights of the full knowledge of His truth set forth from before creation itself. Faith is not contrary to science, it is essential and complementary to it. Faith allows us to come to a place of knowledge, belief, and understanding by jumping ahead at light-speed rather than moving along our information highway at a snail’s pace, and unknowing and doubting all along the way. Have faith, believe, and you will truly understand.