The Reign of God as truthfulness. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com . The Reign of God as truthfulness is a part of the essential character of life that becomes the shape of those who follow Jesus. In the gospel for this upcoming Sunday, Jesus will answer Thomas' question (about where Jesus is going and that the disciples do not know the way) like this: I am the way, the truth, and the life. You want to know the truth - take a look. Take a look at the mercy and grace and life-giving love that is abiding with you. The Reign of God as truthfulness is the eternal life God invites us to enter - a life those first disciples experience in their friend - a life available to them - a life available and present to us. Truthfulness longs for questions to be asked and it longs for all of us to listen and ask question once again. Truthfulness is not afraid of questions nor is it something fixed and rigid that shuts down questions and forbids exploration. Religions often love to shut down questions and shut down inquiry and shut down views that differ from a primary teaching. That may be because religions are not often in a quest for truthfulness - just survivability and control. The Reign of God as truthfulness welcomes the ones who question and the ones who have a sense of humor about that which religions want to be fixed and immoveable. Maybe because truthfulness is not something fixed by us - but is rather it is a part of a life that keeps unfolding before us. O God of love and new life, help us to look again at the life that you place before us in Jesus so that we will once again be introduced to the truthfulness of your Reign. Amen. |
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