Click for Audio: The Freeing Truth
“… and you will know the truth and the truth will make you free.” John 8:32
Each of us carries a perception of the ordenar propecia en linea por transferencia bancaria world that seems true to us. We might say we admire a person for standing in their truth. If each carries his or her own version of truth, how is it possible to determine, as Jesus seems to suggest, a level of truth that actually sets one free? Have you not found that standing in your own truth is sometimes quite stressful, not at all freeing?
I think the operative word in Jesus’ statement is know. To know is to experience the thing. The standard of truth we take from this statement, then, is the experience of freedom. When you know Truth (in an ultimate sense), you experience freedom.
Last week I used the illustration of a sponge immersed in the ocean to depict our soul’s relationship to God. We think of God as the ocean, the water within the sponge as the soul. Both elements offer important clues on how we might think of freedom in a spiritual context. Water (the soul) is indestructible but the sponge (the body) is not. If we stretch our imagination a bit, we can say that water, because of its indestructibility, has nothing to fear. The sponge, on the other hand, is subject to a whole range of potentially destructive environmental elements.
Because the soul, like water, is indestructible, it knows nothing of fear. “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7, New King James Version). The body-based self-image (sponge), on the other hand, is forever guarding its endless list of weaknesses. Jesus is saying, “When you know the truth of your indestructible soul, this truth sets you free.”
We do not find the standard of Truth in individual, intellectual constructs. We find it in the quiet experience of the soul. In our meditative endeavors, we open our intuition to the level that is eternally one with the infinite ocean of God, the indestructible Truth of being that, when touched, sets us free.