THEORY vs TRUTH

As I study the philosophers, theologians, and great thinkers of the past and present; lofty notions about life, the universe, space and beyond, the cosmos, and of course God, are certainly intriguing but can leave me feeling lost and confused.  While I appreciate the science and research, I am a very simple person and often fail to see how it all affects me and my life.  I acknowledge that I don’t have a clue about how things really work in this universe and often wonder if those who claim to understand it all really do.  Most of that knowledge is theory, assumptions, and speculation; it is not Truth, reality, correct, and genuine.  How can they be?

          “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my

           ways, declares the Lord.  For as the heavens are higher than the

           earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than

           your thoughts.” Isaiah 55: 8, 9.

All that said and acknowledged God created human beings to be with Him and to enjoy His Presence, so He revealed his thoughts and ways to us by sending Jesus, the Word become flesh, to dwell among us.  God doesn’t just give us a theory about Himself, life, and the cosmos; He gives us Truth itself.  All that Jesus taught reveals God to us in a Way that we can see, touch, understand, and know with certainty; not theory that changes in every age, but Truth that is eternal.  Those with eyes to see and ears to hear will receive and believe this Truth and will live in that Truth forever.

This Truth is not too hard or too lofty to understand; nor is it beyond our doing.  “The word is very near to you.  It is in your mouth and in your heart, so you can do it” (Deuteronomy 30:11-14).  Mary, a young girl chosen to bring Jesus into this world understood it; shepherds watching over their flocks understood it; wise men from the east following a star understood it; a righteous and devout man, Simeon understood it; a worshipping widow understood it; fishermen understood it; those lost in the sins of the world understood it; and I understand it.

Jesus came to earth to reveal the holiness and almightiness of God, not as a theory but as the Truth.  That Truth is that God loves us and wants communion with us.  It’s that simple; it’s that profound; it’s absolute Truth.  We will come to know and understand that Truth when we come to the quiet and simply receive and believe Him.

          “O Lord, my heart is not proud; my eyes are not raised too high;

             I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous

             for me.  But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned

             child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.”

Psalm 131