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As God is the ultimate source of all being, He is also the ultimate source of
all truth. And as He is the infinite and perfect Being, He is also the highest,
the most beautiful and lovable truth, because things have in truth, in
goodness and in beauty, the same rank as in being. And truth is the being of
Christ. Truth is a presence. It is a living reality. Truth is the presence that the
mind seeks to understand. Let there be no distance between your mind and
truth. If the mind is to know, then let it know the truth. And if truth is reality,
then let it realize the truth. Participation in truth opens the mystery to the
mind of reason. And reasoning and mystery must participate by faith in
exploring unutterable truth that no formula can exhaust, by bringing its depth
of mystery more fully to light. Reason is that power like a flower to burst open
from cold ground. Reasoning to truth illuminates the infiniteness of the
incomprehensible truth of God. Reason and truth are a pilgrimage taken by
the soul journeying into God, walking by the power of the mind, sustained by
the power and grace of God endowing it at every moment with the power of
the Holy Spirit. Each truth gained gives reason to search for that which is
comprehensible of the divine. And the unsearchable mystery will become a
mystery searched. Mystery is just what we don’t know now. It is now that the
heart of the mind is afflicted; for ignorance is to be abandoned. Mystery
vanishes where truth is reasoned to an explanation. How did Jesus convert
water to wine...he is God. How can light come from darkness and be divided
into light and darkness...by the word of God. Why does prayer
work...because of relationship with God. Why does the moon cause
tides...God said so. How can a holy spirit become sinful flesh yet do no
sin...when it is God. What counts as a legitimate explanation...TRUTH.
Mysteries solved! The mystery of reasoning to truth is solved in our
commitment to the word of God. It is the evidence of our faith. It is the
existence and quality of our faith that guides us to truth. But do not let the
mystique of the working of the Holy Spirit rob the mystery that is of God, for
by it the limits of our understanding are unexplainably brought to wisdom.
This is the determined intent spoken by God to come now. Not to ask
questions out of curiousity, but in awe of the contemplation of the revealing
of the mysteries of eternity, of life, of God’s marvelous structure of reality.
Our coming to God to reason for truth is that behind all the discernible
concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable
whereas no word manipulation can affect its revelation.
II Corinthians 13:8
To that extent, true veneration of God is mystery accepted. We come now
and find that the mystery of the word, is found in the construction of the word,
as it is by the love of God that He desires to speak revelations into our heart
through the Holy Spirit. Our real revelation is understanding the depth of
God’s love. And to receive of this revelation we must "know," "understand,"
"recognize," "be conscious of," "experience," "believe," "adhere to," "put faith
in," and "rely on" God's love, God’s word. Truth is the essence that we subsist
in and the presence we experience as our own awareness. Truth not only is
the objective of the mind, it finds a subjective path through the heart. This
requires devotion and love, not speculation or theory. And unless we find
love for the truth we will be confined within our own deception, our own
delusion and low consciousness. Because the Word says God is love,
spiritual pursuit to know the truth comes through love. It is the love of truth
that opens the mind to spiritual heights of understanding whereby one comes
to deeper revelation in the word of God. It is by our spiritual experience that
we come to the knowledge of ultimate truth.
Ephesians 4:15
Truth gives definition and direction to love. Love gives compassion and
kindness to truth. Love rejoices in the truth. Love is glad when truth is
spoken. Therefore, love aims at truth. It supports truth. Truth’s manifestation
is eternal.
Acts 4:32-35
I Corinthians 13:6
Ultimate truth is the final path of our relational positioning with Christ to come
to reason with Supreme truth. The limit of knowing is ultimate truth. It is truth
at all times, in all places and has relevance for our lives. And final truth is
reality. The final truth is that we are all of God, we are all One and our
greatest gift to each other is love and compassion and truth. And in Christ
the final truth is without conclusion. In truth, we can be more than what we
are, for only God can conclude all that there is. Here is a truth to find essence
in the wisdom of knowledge...the universe has more spirit than matter. Think
on it, no, rather reason with it. God is Spirit. The spiritual quality of our life is
consciousness based on truth. And the consciousness of our mind involves
more things than we are currently aware of. Consider the emptiness of a
human being seeking truth. This emptiness is expressed character with the
highest consciousness to be filled with a God-like spirit. It is perfect
emptiness. The spirit guided mind, the spirit taught mind is an awareness of
unique thoughts without feelings, memories of promise, contemplative
prayer, inspired speech, and moral reasoning that are beyond internalized
experiences. It is when the power of the mind is distinct from feelings that
physical response is individuated in every experience. The presence of the
Holy Spirit renders both a hierarchical and a chronological sense to
reasoning. And rather than being reactive to knowledge not yet understood,
we have a more perceptual approach to conform to truth as revealed. Where
reasoning power is present, the mind comprehends, proves, and embraces
truth. Truth can be defined as “conformity with fact or reality.” Jesus says
God's Word is truth. And it sanctifies us by setting us apart to be holy and
live with purpose – God's purpose. The truth can be known. Jesus says he
is the truth, so when we follow him, we are living truth. Our choice is to love
the truth, hate the truth, ignore the truth, or run from it.
Proverbs 23:23
There is already a verdict fated for those who receive not the truth. Choose
to be courageous.
John 3:19-21
Don’t just listen to the word of truth and not respond to it, for that is the
essence of self-deception. So always let his word become like the written
fulfillment of your life. If you listen to the word and don’t live out the message
you hear, you become like the person who looks in the mirror of the word to
discover the reflection of his face in the beginning. You perceive how God
sees you in the mirror of the word, but then you go out and forget your divine
origin. But those who set their gaze deeply into the perfecting law of liberty
are fascinated by and respond to the truth they hear and are strengthened
by it—they experience what God requires of all.
Deuteronomy 10:12
Micah 6:8
It is by the Spirit that truth is discerned as that evidence that proves faith.
And faith is that substance that elevates truth to a higher dimension where
the invisible Presences are nurturant to our minds. For it is by God that we
are given faith and in Christ where we are made to possess faith and through
the Holy Spirit that we do faith. Faith is what brings about our salvation.
Romans 10:9, 10
Ephesians 2:8
This is the ultimate truth...faith leads to eternal life. Both are gifts of God.
Both are the word of God. Believing the word with the heart can only come
about when we are persuaded of the truth in the mind.
Ephesians 1:13
Psalms 119:41, 81
If the heart is not opened to every word of God, every word, then you lack
the faith to respond to the persuasion of God by the truth that He has given.
Self-persuasion is frustrating.
I and II Corinthians 4:6
Many confuse faith with knowledge, when these are not the same.
Knowledge is attainable by being disciplined enough to pursue it. We can
choose to learn and fill our mind with all manner of biblical facts, but this will
not produce faith. Anyone can believe the truth intellectually, but this is not
the same as having heartminded belief. Heartminded faith is the seat of the
soul, the embodiment of spirit. It is the order of the Divine. Intellectual
knowledge of the truth will not bring about the transformation that God
desires for us. One of the primary functions of the Spirit is to lead us into all
truth. And this is done when we have a change of thinking. And this
strengthens awareness of ultimate truth which is knowledge of things as they
are, and as they were, and as they are to come. Nothing in the word of God
is to be neglected. Every word of God is causally efficient. Not imaginative,
not opinionative. Each word, every text is intrinsically or objectively real,
existing in and of itself as a “unique particular”. Every word is “life of life”. It
is what makes us what we are according to our conditional choices.
It is the ultimate truth of reasoning by faith that gives us eyes to see the depth
of wisdom. Let us retain the word of God and wisely comment that God is
not to be believed blindly but to be understood to the best of reasons. Our
understanding is the key to open the heart of truth.
Ours is a God of ultimate truth, Jesus is the ultimate truth, the bible contains
the ultimate truth, the Holy Spirit reveals the ultimate truth.
Deuteronomy 32:4
I Corinthians 10:4
John 17:17
John 16:8
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