Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“I want their hearts to be encouraged and united in love, so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ himself, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I am saying this so that no one may deceive you with plausible arguments.”
NL Daily Devotion for Tuesday, July 14, 2020
by R. Fergus Moir, Clergy Stuff
Truth makes people uncomfortable when it’s not something they want to hear. So often when we’re confronted with truth, we come up with plausible arguments. Or we latch on to any plausible-sounding argument we hear that justifies our own ideas or position. It lets us off the hook of having to really look at ourselves and how we might need to change. I don’t think I even need to mention the current events in our world that bear this out.
Truth is not relative. It doesn’t changed based on perspective. Some things are truly universal, even if our limited human understanding can’t quite figure out what those are in every case. Truth is found in God through Christ Jesus. We would do well to look at the facts of our world through the lens of Christ, through the mystery of a God who loves us so much, who thinks all of creation so good and beautiful and valuable that it’s worth dying for. If we can look at creation in that same way, at our fellow human beings in that same way, might we be able to set aside plausible arguments that seem to affirm our own opinions in favor of an all-encompassing compassion and love of neighbor and world?
Where am I letting ‘plausible arguments’ keep me from seeing the truth?
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