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| Omar: (10/29/08) Hi Jack!
What do you think? Do we need to pursuit God to find the Truth, or do we need to pursuit the Truth and there we may or may not find God? The order has implications. I tend to think that I believe in God because I believe he is true, and not the other way around. |
| Jack: I’m sure if we knew the spiritual pilgrimages of a great number of individuals we would discover that each had their own story:
- Some recognizing the inward ache (such as Pascal) who came to realize that God created us with a void that only He can fill.
- Others, hungry to find something sure in life, searching as it were for truth, find that sooner or later, as Jesus said of Himself, “I am the way, the truth, and the life…” (John 14:6).
- Still others, seeking true beauty, find that ultimately He is the “altogether lovely One,” beside whom all artistic creativity and invention pales. Can anyone imagine greater beauty than what He has painted in His universe?
- Still others, tired of lies, half-truth, hypocrisy, and human failure, search for true righteousness and justice, frustrated time and again with human imperfection, only to find it in One who has never sinned and balances love and justice in unique perspective, especially in the Cross.
- And love? Who doesn’t long to be unconditionally loved? Only God is genuine love.
So, Omar, I find your question intriguing, but multifaceted. And then, after much searching, and one really finds God, he or she discovers that all along He was searching for us! John says it this way, “We love Him because He first loved us.” And another truth – when we find Him, the search is not over. As the Psalmist expresses it, “As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants for You, O God.” It will take us all Eternity to really enter into the full knowledge of Him who is greater than our imagination of Him. Happy searching! Jack |
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