Living Out Truth

David, Solomon, Moses, the prophets, and others all seemed to have something we lacked. They lived out the Truth that they knew. It came out in everything they did. David's poetry in the Psalms. Solomon's Love and wisdom. Moses' leadership. The prophets faithful and often painful revelations of God's Truth to their people. They lived out their Love. They lived out the Truth that YHWH was teaching them. It came out in their writings, in their Love, in their art, in their dreams, and in their work.

I suppose we feel "short handed" these days, because we hesitate to live out the Truth that is in us. The Apostles lived out the Truth even to their deaths. Paul's entire life was wrapped up in Living for Christ. "For me to live, is Christ. To die, is gain." There wasn't anything else for Paul. There shouldn't be anything else for us.

We hold back in our lives, our art, our Love. We're afraid to live for fear of ridicule. Our artwork is timid and shallow, because we dread review. Our Love is restrained and too often selfish, because we fear disappointment or pain.

We are dead to sin. Alive to Christ. We are crusified to the elementary things of the world. We are not subject to the things of this world. They are all now tools for the Spirit. Our dreams, our thoughts, our bodies, our strengths, our weaknesses, our friendships, and our affections are all His to use. In Salvation He is continually working through us to make us more like Himself. "To be conformed to the image of His Son." His Son was God incarnate.

The God-Man, the Second Adam, the Tree of Life, has brought us "full salvation." It's not merely a once in a life-time-fire-insurance-now-I've-got-eterenity-so-I-can-squander-today sort of salvation. That would be know salvation at all. Christ's gift to us is complete. It covers every facet of life. Every grain of sand. Whether we eat or drink, it is all for Him or it is nothing.

Those who have not yet known the Truth often live more fully, more completely than the Children of Light. Perhaps it is because we hesitate for fear of failure or sin. But we have been made free through the blood of Christ. We have been washed and are pure. "There is no fear in Love." Our simple objective is to Live in Love. To completely give ourselves over to the Salvation that is being worked in us. To let the Spirit have complete and total sway in our lives.

"Walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh" (Galations 5:16, ESV).

"If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit" (Galations 5:25, ESV).