Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being, And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.
The more I live, the more I'm convinced that truth is simple. It's accepting truth, receiving it into ourselves, that is difficult because we are liars; our natural state of being is to be very afraid of truth.
What's more, I know this: we don't acquire truth merely by reading the Bible, talking about it, or listening to a favorite teacher.
For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. ~ Gal. 1:11, 12
The truth is not an idea, even though our religious and intellectual reasonings find comfort--familiar ground--in trying to reduce Him to ideas and concepts. Truth has to be made flesh (John 1:14), it has to make its way into our experience before we can know it, or speak with authority about it (and not as the scribes/lawyers/learned men).
...that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. ~ Eph. 1:17
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Do you find it odd, dear Steve, that the Scripture you were pondering this night is the Scripture that I too was meditating on? I do. Do you find it peculiar that a week or so later, we were reunited in a happenstance encounter which neither of us could have foreseen? A divine appointment was arranged for us that evening.
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