TRUTH . . . IS PERSONIFIED
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Thankfully that memorable night, just as happened 2,000 years ago, 'The common people heard him gladly'. It is the religious, or the important leaders, who so often want a stained glass window Jesus, a self-righteous Holy Joe preferring the company of Pharisees.

One liberating truth reminds us that the very life that was in him is in us. God himself is the light that lights everyone that comes into the world. Sometimes that light has become darkness and we need to help each other discover the true light inside ourselves. When such illumination occurs we know we have not encountered a creed, a doctrine, a plan of salvation or a new culture, but the living heart of the person of God that beats inside the whole universe. We are one with every created thing.

When we have 'ears to hear' we may find that heart beating in the most unusual places. God so often revealed in very ordinary containers, those who do not command a second glance. How true it is that the sweetest people on earth are often quite unknown. Although they have been entrusted with small abilities yet they still love and serve. Their intrinsic goodness is sometimes concealed within the coarsest exteriors. God's gentle might was declared through a Man who brandished a whip to the temple money changers. I am sure that many who resist his humanity feel he just managed to miss them.

Let's keep our eyes peeled and our senses attuned to locate great treasure displayed in unlikely places; in those who are themselves the message of the hour. For I think truth is unlikely to be revealed through strident verbosity and those with a love for great outward success or pedantic accuracy.

© Maurice Smith 2004

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