The Spirit of Truth seeks us!

Jesus testifies that
I AM He, the Way who is Truth.

Searching, we need to know the Way ...

He seeks to save us, the lost.

The Spirit of Truth seeks us!

The only true Seeker is the One …
Who came to “seek and save” us.

Jesus testifies I AM Truth.

We, the lost, need Truth to lead us,
That we may follow the Way …
Then, each of us may hear Truth...
and become “a follower of the Way.”




“I admit that I worship the God of our fathers
as a follower of the Way,”
Owen <><

Reading the Word of God that stirs my heart in:
John 14:6 – Luke 19:10 – Acts 24:14

St Augustine wrote words that remain relevant personally to you, to all of us, today:

“it is not we who possess the Truth after having sought it,

but the Truth that seeks us out and possesses us.” 

The truth seeks us!  St Augustine’s words remind me what Jesus said, “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost” (Luke 19:10).  As Christ seeks, faith accepts his truth, then “You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you.”  However, sadly “if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ” (Romans 8:9).  To receive salvation or “have the Spirit of Christ” is to “belong to Christ.”  This work of Chairs, as St Augustine expressed, “Truth that seeks us out and possesses us.” 

Jesus is God himself (John 8:58) and he testifies of himself as the “Truth” who is God (John 14:6-7).  Today God still “seeks us out” as his Holy Spirit is sent to convict you, everyone to turn to God (John 16:5-11).  This is not new; the story of God is a message of how He has been seeking people from the very beginning. 

 

Jesus has come for you, let Truth possess you,  

Owen <><     

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.” (John 14:6-7 ESV)

Worship: Is there a best way?

I was fortunate to have Dr. Elmer Towns as a professor, he expressed how “True worship upsets the way we have lived, and demands more sacrifice from the worshipper. True worship never allows us to remain the same person we were before we came into the presence of God.”

You can find such a place, a place within the presence with God.  I have learned as I follow Christ in life that many people worship different. But guess what, the manner does not matter. The essence of worship is not engaging softly in hymns, in the manner of respondent liturgy, outward robustness of charismatic celebration, nor in the stillness of silence.  It is all that, and more.

Worship is not the expression, but inward change from an encounter with the Lord God Almighty.  When you walk away from worship my hope is that your life is as Towns notes, upset – and your life is changed. Worship brings change, a heart seeking truth, a willingness to be obedient to the whisper of God’s Spirit instilling God’s will for you.  Apostle Paul expressed it like this, “I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God — this is your spiritual act of worship” (Romans 12:1).  Worship is a sacrifice, without such, one only engages for the appearance religion, not for the manifestation of Christ’s Spirit. Worship is the awe of God when you have found yourself embraced by Christ.

 

Jesus taught the woman at the well a lesson that holds a tremendous impact for you today.  Always be mindful of what Jesus spoke to her about.  The act of spiritual worship, to which He opened her eyes to how “true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.  God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth” (John 4:23b-24).

 

Don’t stop singing, lifting hands, expressing liturgy, shouting, sitting in silence, standing, or falling prostrate before the Lord.  But continue to “worship in spirit and truth.”  Empty yourself of self and be refilled and immersed within God, who is Spirit. 

 

Thinking of you, praying you are blessed in worship,

Owen <><