What is Truth?  If God calls us to worship Him in Spirit and in Truth (John 4:24), what does that mean?  What God is continuing to press into me is that as he has chosen me (and all of us) to use as a vessel of proclaiming Him to the world – my hope is that I never stop merely at facts.  I never want to focus so tightly on a point of Biblical doctrine that I miss an opportunity to convey what is said about the person of Christ, and hopefully show Christ to be rightly as beautiful, worthy of worship, and a source of comfort and joy.

What we see of God in the Bible, teaches us about who He is.  This is the God that bled and died for us.  He is the treasure that awaits us.  I want myself first, but all of us together to see our time in the Word as a means not to know “about” God, but to know God and find our comfort and joy in Him.  Even God’s commandments serve two purposes – one, they are always resulting in our good, and two, they teach us about His character.  As we know Him we will see our idea of “truth” change.  Our worldview will change.  If our joy as Christians is not in maximizing our physical comforts / physical pleasures now, but rather in a future hope of eternity with Christ – how important is it to know who He is, and treasure him for all the facets and depths of who He is?  How else can we go out each day to face the struggles each of us faces in joy, without this hope?  So my hope is that as we know God from His word, we will see our ideas of “truth” change, to be less grounded in our own understanding, and more grounded in the person of Jesus Christ.

To give you an example:  Before I knew God from the Bible, my idea of “love” was at best my making someone feel special, and at worst, was related to how they made me feel.  If you’ve been to a wedding, you’ve no doubt heard 1 Corinthians 13 read off which speaks of all the things “love” is.  My idea of love was a lie, and so I adjusted it.  The Bible then also tells us that God demonstrates His love for dying for us while we were still sinners (Rom 5:8).  I didn’t realize that the 1 Corinthians type of love meant service unto death for someone even while they mock me.  My idea of love still needed to change, so I adjusted it.  Finally, the Bible tells us that God is love (1 John 4:8).  That means, whatever is true about the word “love” finds its fullness in God.

I’m stealing this from Paul in 2 Corinthians 13:14, because his words are way better than mine for encouragement:

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all,
Adam