Discover Truth

Not happiness, but finding truth would make me contempt.

”..You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.”
John 8:32
Also read John 8:12-30
*Jesus is the truth **

“Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other” (85th Psalm, verse 10).

There seems to be a contradiction. Everybody knows the Bible says God is love…but He’s also amazingly holy: “He cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth” (Psalm 96:13).

God has to be righteous and judge murderers, rapists, adulterers, thieves, and even liars. The Bible even says all liars shall have their part in the lake of fire (see Revelation 21:8). Have you ever told a lie? Stolen anything? Jesus said whoever looks on a woman with lust has committed adultery already with his heart, and the Bible says whoever hates is a murderer (God sees the heart). Already, that makes everybody liars, thieves, adulterers, and murderers at heart: and we have to stand before a holy God on judgment day.

God wants everybody to be in Heaven (1 Timothy 2:4 says so), and has no pleasure in the death of the wicked (Ezekiel 33:11), but He is a good judge, and must punish sin. The only way righteousness and peace (God’s holiness and His love) can kiss each other is if somebody else takes the punishment for our sins, in our place, so that we can go to Heaven. To pay for all our sins against God, the Bible says we rightly deserve eternal separation from God in the fire of Hell. That’s why God sent His Son to pay the penalty. Jesus lived a perfect life, even His thoguhts, and was thus worthy of taking upon the sins of all mankind.

“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.” -Isaiah 53:3-6

He then rose from the grave in victory over death, that we might follow Him, if we accept His sacrifice and receive His gift, trusting only in Him to save us.

That is why John 14:6 has so much meaning to me:

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

The truth is, we have to face a holy God on judgment day, and will either have to face Him one-on-one about our sins, and receive the punishment of Hell, or, if we trust in Christ, God sees that all our penalty has already been paid when Jesus died and gave us His blood the cross.

I feel closer to stumbling (to “feel” closer is nostalgia, engrammic celular memory ) upon that universal truth (proverbs 8.22, Acts 4.32) of all men’s existence. You are Christ spirit. The vehicle your body will perish. Death of the body is so sure it has already happened you never really were Isaiah 25.2 “For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.”. I Corinthians 3.16, Colossians 2.12,13,20, Romans 6.4 “Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death” You are free from the constraints of time. Galations 4.9-11 “But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.”

Everyday I breathe, I feel closer to stumbling upon that universal truth of all men’s existence. I remember a time not that long ago, when I was still living in that duplex apartment in Kentucky. I would wake up at 6:00 in the morning to go to school, which was very early to me. I would go to school and rot my brain away on people’s biased opinions of reality and of myself. I would come home to my mother, whom I would argue with over many more opinions of reality and of myself. I wanted to see what reality was like. I no longer wanted to live in this charade of life that America has so freely granted us. I wanted to see real pain and suffering. I wanted to know real desperation. I wanted to know who I was. I joined the Marine Corps.

The world is much different now. I wake up at a very late 5:30 in the morning and I run as far and as high as my legs can take me. I no longer forced into people’s opinions on how great life is and how great of a person I can be. Now, I am told where life can be improved and where I can improve myself. I find myself no longer arguing with people so much as embracing their ideas and working to expound their ideas further into full bloom of their true nature. I find myself confident in all aspects of my life now. While I haven’t yet seen real pain nor real suffering, and I have felt desperation from time-to-time. I know that there are people out there suffering and that my desperation is nothing compared to theirs.

I still search for the meaning of life. Until I learn this, all I can do is give life, in all forms, my reverent respect.