Confusion

Everyone talking at the same time,
Asking questions that can't be answered.
Listening to themselves ,
Oblivious to any other thought.
How to solve this dilemma?

Listen, to the noise.
Think through the process.
Consider the consequences.
Remember who you are.
Harken to truth.

 

Estranged and Don't Know Why

I am adrift in a boat

Being moved at will by the winds of upheaval.
Everything needed is on the boat with me
But for some reason the use of those assets are not being fully utilized.
Perhaps I have felt sorry for myself and left room in my thought process for a little pity.
Maybe it’s the lingering health issues or family matters that seem insurmountable.
Likely it’s because of an unconscious decision to go it alone,
With little thought for prayer or quiet time,
Instead filling time with meaningless drivel.
Decisions are put off until they must be made in hopes that circumstances change
And negativity is transformed to productivity.

Each day dawns with hope and sets with sorrow.

Any strides forward are offset by the backward momentum of disappointment.
Days turned into weeks, weeks into months,
And now more than a year has gone by.
Time lost to despair;
Time that will never come around again.
I wait!
The sound of a car door closing;
The ring of the telephone;
An email or even a letter.
But no sound, no ring, no print.

News came today.

Unprepared for but not unexpected.
She’s gone and with her two gems.
It could be three but only two I know.
Gone, with no notice, no goodbye, no see you soon.
Just gone!
No forwarding address.
No phone number.
No email address.
Non communicato!
Estranged, left to wonder why.

My eyes pool with water even as I write,
Wanting desperately to wake up from this nightmare.
But the darkness around me won’t allow for morn to dawn.
Surely this is not happening, but is a figment of my imagination.
The game is up I don’t want to play anymore.
Can anyone hear me?
Please tell me this is not actually happening.
But it is and has been going on.
Get used to it.
The end is not in sight.
Life’s lessons are costly and come without notice.

What is Truth?

It seems as though many people define truth as being whatever they want it to be. What one person considers truth someone else will reject. By definition truth is the absence of falsehood. It is real, genuine, and unable to be set aside at someone's whim.

In John 18:38 Pilate asks Jesus "What is truth?" He asked that question because he had witnessed the religious leaders living hypocritically, confusing religious activity with spiritual maturity. What he saw them do and heard them say conflicted with compassion. They were like the cursed fig tree. Their leaves were in full bloom but they bore no fruit. They were pretending to be pious while at the same time displaying anything but piety.

Pilate's question is as important today as it was in the first century. In the high priestly prayer of John 17 Jesus says, "Sanctify them by Your word; Your word is truth." God's word is truth because God is truth. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth. What is truth? God is truth, Jesus is truth, the Holy Spirit is truth, and the Bible is truth. Questioning the veracity of that premise does not make the premise any less true. Truth is not relative. It is concrete and unchangeable. What is true today will be true tomorrow.

Every belief, whether spiritual or temporal, has a base upon which it rests. Those who hold fast to the theory of evolution rest their belief in the hypothesis of the big bang theory whereby the universe was created from a gigantic explosion of subatomic particles which put into motion the process of life, beginning with a single cell ultimately mutating into modern man. In this model of the origin of the universe, a spiritual component is superfluous. According to this theory everything that exists or ever will exist has a natural explanation. It takes great faith in man's ability to reason to hold this position because the theory generates more questions than it answers. No argument from a supernatural perspective will convince those who hold tenaciously to this theory.

Those who hold a belief in a supernatural designer and creator of the universe base such belief on the Bible. It takes great faith to hold this position as well. The Bible does not answer the question, "Is there a God?" It assumes He exists, has existed, and will always exist. No argument from human logic will dissuade the person holding the supernatural view from their belief.

Two divergent world views. If one is correct the other is wrong. They both cannot be correct. One is man-centered, the other is God-centered. One claims relativity as a base, the other claims certainty. One claims to be from man, the other claims to be from God. One promises death, survival of the fittest. One promises life, eternal bliss. Two theories! Two destinies!

What is truth? It would behoove an individual to discover the answer.