It is impossible for God to speak
the Truth without Love or to Love without the Truth - for this is God’s Nature,
such is God; God is One, His Being is One.
For mankind, for men and women;
when we speak truth without love we have tyranny and self-righteousness; when
we love without truth we have ethical promiscuity and moral licentiousness.
We will not discover what it is
to live “speaking the truth in love” without abiding in the Vine – and then we
will live it because of He who abides in us; we will experience what John
writes, “As He is, so are we in this world.”
In the Divine Nature, speaking in
human terms, there is He who IS, and out of the I AM we see He who does – He does
because He IS.
The verb proceeds from the noun,
if you will. The action proceeds from the nature.
Mary has “chosen that which is
better.” She sits and listens and drinks in our Savior.
Hence, in Christ, we are becoming
what we are. In Ephesians, we must know what it is to “sit in the heavens” in
Christ before we know what it is to walk in the Church and the world – and certainly
to stand against wickedness. This is a basic (Christianity 101) discipleship
and spiritual formation pattern that we miss again and again and again.
Attempting to speak truth without
love, or to love without truth, is like blowing bubbles in the air – neither is
sustainable. We might as well clothe ourselves with a Superman cape and hurl
ourselves from the Empire State Building. If we will look at the sidewalk below
we will see the result of man attempting what only God can do, and God does it because
God IS it – the marvelous and majestic beauty of a Nature of Truth and Love (I
write as a limited, a very limited, man).
Knowing Him is everything,
knowing about Him is dangerous – for we easily mistake knowing about Him for knowing
Him. We easily mistake information for relationship. Better to know Him as a
child than know about Him as an adult.
O how I want to know Him!
What about you?
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