IN SEARCH OF TRUTH
“For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:” Isaiah 28:10
John 8:32
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
What a promise! How encouraging! And you shall know the truth. Really? Can one really know the truth? Can one really be sure that one knows the truth? For seven years I believed in teachings that were said to be true. But then the doubts came and with the doubts, the all-important question, “If I know the truth, why am I not free?” I decided to start all over again. But this time I would allow the Spirit of God to teach me as promised by Jesus in John 16:13, “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth:” I asked the Holy Spirit to wipe clean from my mind the strong influences of the teachings that I had been previously taught, just as a teacher wipes the writing off the blackboard, and to guide me into all truth. Step by step, the Spirit taught me in the way He had outlined in the words of the prophet Isaiah, “For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:” (Isaiah 28:10) With the teaching of every truth came the freedom of the soul, sometimes like a flood, sometimes like the rising of the tide, and always like the light of the rising sun, gently and surely and finally all encompassing as the brightness of the noon day sun. What a glorious journey, what an amazing pilgrimage. All who dare to believe in the promises of Jesus will know the truth. The truth will make them free.