What the Bible says about Truth, Seeking
(From Forerunner Commentary)
He says a similar thing in John 18:37: "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed." Those who hear the voice of Christ, those who hear His truth, will then submit to it. That is what will separate them from the world.
John W. Ritenbaugh
Truth (Part 1)Related Topics: Abiding in Christ | Abiding in God | Abiding in God's Word | Disciple | Disciples, Role of | Disciples, The | Discipleship | Discipleship, Cost of | Hearing God's Word | Hearing the Gospel | Submission to God | Submission to God's Will | Truth | Truth, Love of | Truth, Seeking | Truth, Struggle for
What kind of message does it send to God if His children, those called by His name, either do not seek truth or carelessly ignore what they have? Perhaps it would be good for us to think of it like this: He is Truth personified. Therefore, to ignore truth is to ignore Him and, by extension, to ignore salvation. Remember, salvation is the active, continuous process by which God delivers us from what causes disease in the mental and physical areas of life and eternal death in the spiritual. Is it really worthwhile to ignore truth?
Truth does not come to us all at once. It gradually accumulates in those who ask, seek, and knock for it, then use it in their own lives to glorify God. We do not always easily find it. Sometimes truth emerges only after a long and confusing search that is constantly impeded by conflicting information. Nevertheless, we must persevere!
John W. Ritenbaugh
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Unconverted people can, completely apart from contact with the true God, discover much that harmonizes with God's purpose or godliness in general. The problem is that because they lack God's Holy Spirit, the truth they find is not as meaningful as it could be.
John W. Ritenbaugh
Thanksgiving or Self-Indulgence?Related Topics: God's Holy Spirit | God's Holy Spirit as Revealer of Truth | Godliness | Holy Spirit | Truth | Truth, Seeking
Loving the truth so intensely that it motivates us to pursue it carefully and diligently - so much that we make it an operative part of our everyday life - will prove to be the difference between being saved and perishing. Each of us will have to be concerned enough about the spiritual teaching we receive to search the Scriptures prayerfully and diligently to verify it (Acts 17:11). Proving all things (I Thessalonians 5:21, KJV) is so much better than lazily accepting the word of someone who appears to be trustworthy.
John W. Ritenbaugh
Damnable HeresiesRelated Topics: Loving the Truth | Proving All Things | Pursuing the Truth | Scriptures, Searching the | Searching | Searching Out | Searching the Scriptures | Truth | Truth, Love of | Truth, Seeking