Tuesday, February 15, 2022
The Truth Is
No Matter How Straggly
We Think
Our Lives Have Become,
Christ’s Light
Shines In Us
And Through Us to The World
Psalm 14:1
Fools say in their hearts, ‘There is no God.’ They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; they say there is no one who does good.
1 John 5:20
We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Words of Grace For Today
Fools have long since pretended to be wise saying that God does not exist, and that, in their corruption and abominations that no one does any good.
Fools we are, all of us, though we are fools by a different measure. Those are the true fools who measure us as fools because of our faith in Christ, and our unlimited capacity to suffer and still trust God and rejoice with God among us, in us, God suffering with us. We are gladly, according to the ‘norm’ of perverse thinkers and doers, to be called fools for Christ.
In Christ we have come to know that there is truth that God gifts us with the ability to recognize, discern and separate out from what people call ‘your truth’, relative truth, or situational truth. This truth enables us to clearly discern lies told by true fools.
This truth enables us to clearly know Christ Jesus, and the promises God makes to be with us always, now on earth and into all eternity.
Truth is as valuable as love, and it is so readily corrupted by those who are corrupted themselves, in an effort to hide their corruption. Doch, God is not fooled. God demonstrates truth and true love in the life, ministry, healing, suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Truth is so powerful as love is so powerful, that they give us life, even when our enemies would leave us to die.
Fools think that they can live as if God does not exist.
Fools for Christ know we live only because God exists, and chooses to love us unconditionally.
And that’s the truth that brings life as a free gift to all.