Won to the Heart of Truth, Reality and Perspective

WE CAN SEE anything we want to see. But is it the truth – an observable, verifiable truth, as others (and God) might see it?

This is a test of our ability to overcome the propensity of our broken humanity – the partiality driven of emotion – the reactiveness of instinctive unchecked thought – and of many other representations of that same thing.

Perspective is the outcome of genuineness.

“When we are genuine, people meet us in a human way and get a glimpse of our personal life of faith.”

— RICHARD M. GULA

God invites us into Reality,

In our meeting with His Son,

In every sense of Morality,

He shows us He has Won.

As we stand convinced,

Of this Saviour of the Ages,

His words are not to be minced,

His perspective comes in Stages.

The greatest gift of the knowledge of God is truth, weighed upon the soul, such that we would be able to accept and live abiding to our reality. There would be no inherent complaint; a humble acceptance abiding. It comes in stages; nobody is granted passage to perfection. But we strive for progress toward truth, such that God would win us to greater perspective and that blessed of all states: genuineness.

What We All Want Deep Inside Ourselves

We all want a deeper sense of relational congruence.

That is, we want to feel at home within ourselves, with others, with God.

When we do such a thing – travel toward a sense of genuineness that is integrity – we then tend toward the expression of our purified inner selves as we live and breathe. As we go about being ‘who we are’, we shine our inner light outwards, without thought or effort. This is surely the greatest, most fundamental evangelistic method. We forget about spruiking out of a sense of dissonance. Our ‘spruiking’ is intrinsic to who we are. People can begin to trust it, to a point where we are credible witnesses.

What we all want deep inside ourselves is to realise that which God has given us sight of all along: to find absolute contentment in who we are, where we are at, and where we are headed – even as we exist, today!

This inner vision that God has inspired in every human being (see also Ecclesiastes 3:11) is what we all earnestly seek – though many are so confused because of the evil in this world. We overcome such confusion as we draw ever closer to the unfailing truth in God, by simply living our realities, and accepting them, which offers us perspective, so we can live as genuine persons in this fallen world.

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The greatest gift of the knowledge of God is truth, weighed upon the soul, such that we would be able to accept and live abiding to our reality. There would be no inherent complaint; a simple humble acceptance abiding. It comes in stages; nobody is granted passage to perfection. But we strive for progress toward truth, such that God would win us to greater perspective and that blessed of all states: genuineness.

© 2013 S. J. Wickham.