Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens,Scripture brings to light a quality of truth that is all too often lost in abstract discussions or in popular gnostic descriptions. Truth at the conceptual and content level must not be separated from truth at the practical level; the objective and verifiable must always be set alongside the existential and experiential. In other words, the answers we seek to questions of truth must satisfy our hearts even as they stimulate our minds.
your faithfulness to the skies. Psalm 36:5
The truth of God's being and character is far more than a set of creedal principles. This truth can transform our lives in terms of a loving and free relationship. From this God and his Word, we can receive true answers to the questions that are inherently raised within us. Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? The answers God provides us are simple enough for a little child to understand and yet so profound that the deepest quest of the most sophisticated philosopher can be satisfied.
Comments: Yesterday, Uncle Jay commented on the actions of his son, Matt, and how as a boy visiting the streets of Chicago, Matt "would always go up and down the street giving his money to the homeless without any encouragement whatsoever he just saw they needed what he could give them, blessed are our youth and my we the adults never stop learning from them."
Here is a great example of what Truth really is - beyond concept or theory - Matt, even as a child, bore the image of his creator. Sacrifice of himself for others without regard to social status and without coaching. I know Matt, and although he likes to fight, he is also one of the softest persons in our family. Praise be to God for showing us our true character.
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 1 Peter 1:3
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