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Skrevet af Jørn Nielsen   
Torsdag, 25. april 2013 06:59



Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” and when he had said this, he went out…”  (Joh. 18:38).  Poor you, why did you walk out?  The Truth was right there!

Let me put this in very plain English since nearly all my Scandinavian (and German) friends do read and write English and even take pride in it.  So I like to share with you a precious ray of light the Lord  let shine into my soul when again I saw  the difference between preaching truths and The Truth, who is a person, Jesus Christ.

I sometimes read books or listen to sermons dealing with a lot of “profound” truths and yet I´m left cold and freezing.  Why?  My thirsty soul longed for “the voice of my beloved”  (S. of S. 2:8) – but “I did not find Him” (3:1) there.  An American friend, Roy was his name, often said to me when we´d been listening to some piece of a dull lecture, “Did the speaker minister truth?”  Yes, and yet I was thirsting for Him who is the Truth.

I just finished another book with  “truths”, and truths they were, but I was still bewildered.  My awareness of being unable to keep step with those truths humbled me.  Then in a sudden flash my bewildered soul was directed to Him, the great “I AM” who is “the way, the truth, an the life”.  I heard His voice and rejoiced.

I shared with my wife at the dinner table (o, how we should imitate Martin Luther´s good, edifying table talks!) how the Truth, Christ, has again brought relief to my soul, and we read, “We have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the Truth (not truths) commending ourselves to every man´s conscience in the sight of God.”  (2 Cor. 4:2).  The point is that the embodiment of preaching and teaching must be Christ, the Truth.

When the thousands that thronged to listen to C.H. Spurgeon were leaving “The Metropolitan Tabernacle” in London, many would say, “What a great Savior that man preaches!”  May that be said of you and me too.

April 25, 2013 – jn

 
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