8. Truth

There are many who pursue truth with all of their heart, deeply desiring to know more and better the world that is around them.  More importantly, they will seek what is not yet known, the secret reality of life, the hidden message behind our lives.  To seek the Spirit seems like a good route to go.

This is a good thing.  Getting to know more is great, and the Spirit lets us know significant truths. But first, a caution.

Religion is a poor path to finding the reality of physical existence.  If you want to know the origins of earth, the nature of plants or the secrets of the physical universe, you want to go to science.  They have the methods and skills developed over centuries to discover that kind of truth.

The Spirit, honestly, isn’t interested in revealing everything.  The Spirit understands human weakness, and how we get overwhelmed by too much truth and distracted by focusing on the insignificant.  For example, Darwin expresses a lot of good truth in his volumes.  However, his books were misinterpreted to express a terrible lie, Social Darwinism.  That’s what humans like to do with truth, sometimes. So the Spirit doesn’t reveal at least as much as he reveals. 

This doesn’t mean that the Spirit doesn’t lead us to Truth.  The Spirit can open up the whole world to us, showing us powerful, transforming revelations.  But these revelations usually mean more to us than to anyone else.  The Spirit is interested in us, individually, and seeing us be the whole people we were meant to be.  He will work toward that goal.  So he will tell us and not tell us and interpret and reveal and hide what we need to be whole.   We just need to remember that.

And if we want to know what Sarah should do?  Forget it.  The Spirit will have that discussion with Sarah, not with us.  The Spirit isn’t a soothsayer.  He seeks to be our companion, our lover.