Truth Story

We talk a lot, but we don't really say that much. What do we talk about? Sports. Entertainment. Eating and drinking, etc. Fluff n stuff that occupies us but doesn't feed our souls. We have within us tho, a hunger for something. A yearning, because we know there's more available to us. And we are blessed if we tune in, consciously, to that yearning. If we try to figure out why we feel so sad, frustrated, unfulfilled. If we stop blaming other people for that, and take responsibility for what goes on in our own skin. In other words, if we become a serious truth-seeker. Then we hear about a man who said I am the Truth. And, of course, being a truth-seeker we focus on him—his life and teachings. And its refreshing, in all the fluff n stuff of human discourse, to hear some words of substance: Word like “In the beginning was the Word, and Word was with God, and Word was God, and it became flesh and lived with us for a time.” We hear this One say that he came from the place where everything has come from. And that its a lovely perfect place where this yearning that we have always felt in our hearts is fulfilled completely. A place where everything good and beautiful on this earth exists in magnified form, and all that is evil and wrong is burned up in a consuming fire of truth. We hear in the voice of this One something that resonates deep within us as being eternally and ultimately good. But we also see that he was hated. Because the goodness in him exposed the evil that had infiltrated the human family—the evil that loathed being exposed, because it loses its power in the light of truth; and power was the fuel that it operated on. And so, those who were blinded and consumed in this evil plotted against him, tried to trick him, trip him up, so he'd say or do something that was against the “rules” they'd made up, cause in that day, as in this day in some places, if you disobey the “rules” you get put to death. Problem was they couldn't trick Him because you can't trick Truth, 'cause any way you come at it, it is only the truth. So they trumped up some charges against him and nailed him to a cross. But not before they beat Him to within an inch of his life, spat on him, and made fun of him. None of it changed Him however, being the Truth: He prayed for them. And He had already sown the seeds into this world that continue to grow, and by any reasonable estimation, will always be growing in the human family. The seeds that bear the fruit in our souls of everything we'd been looking for in all the wrong places; the fruit that deeply satisfies the souls of those who sincerely seek and submit to it. But this Truth confronts evil. And we've all got some of it in us. And, of course, evil doesn't want to be confronted. We see that we have it because we don't love each other properly, and love is the essence of Truth. We hurt each other, we are selfish and self-centered, all the while bragging about how much we do. We work hard to get someone to love and admire us, and we don't lift a finger to do the work of loving others. We complain about how badly we've been treated because of the evil in this world—the same evil that we overlook in ourselves. We feel entitled to good service, and we hate to serve. We can be mean and insensitive at times. We want pleasure and comfort and we hate to work, even tho work is love made visible. We live in secret inner fear of what life might do to us, and about death. The Truth exposes all this in us. And so it's easier to keep our head down, not look too deeply into Truth, and hope that we can somehow muddle thru with the little human knowledge we've stored up in our little finite brains that we did not create. And evil loves that, 'cause it can only operate in the darkness of that blindness. And so we keep spinning our wheels, going down one dead-end street after another. And we become like those that He prayed for: Father, please forgive them, because they don't know what they are doing. And we sure need that forgiveness, if what He said is true. Because one thing He said is that we all, sooner or later must face that Truth in its purest and most powerful form. And there won't be any place to hide from it. And for those who have sincerely sought it and submitted themselves to it, that will be heaven. But for those who have fearfully avoided it, it will be hell. The same Truth: heaven for some, hell for others.