Fear No Fear

(All scripture from Lexham English Bible, Copyright 2012 Logos Bible Software)

This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ, not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

1 John 5:6

We are anointed by the Father’s blood, and water, and fire (Spirit). They make up a barrier that cannot be broken. Cannot be dissolved. Cannot be washed away. And the underpinning of that anointing – the carrier oil, if you will – is Truth. Without the TRUTH to trust in, we would never be able to receive the anointing. Truth is the foundation of trust. Which is why the world is seeking to abandon truth. If they can avoid the truth, then they can help avoid God.

I heard a statement today that people have more sympathy for the perpetrators of crime than the victors because their own guilty consciences are offended by seeing guilt punished. This is so accurate. Let’s say group A violates the territory of group B and causes suffering and death. If group A fights back, it will be inevitable that group B and people surrounding them will be hurt. What will you see? Group A vilified for the hurt on group B even though group A is perfectly justified in defending themselves against a threat. We see protests and campaigns to stay sentences for prisoners in our justice systems – but almost nothing about the victims and their families. We prevent punishment of children by their parents (reasonable, not abusive), and then bemoan that they’re growing up into uncontrolled adults. We want to make space for every conceivable type of human while ignoring the impact on existing groups or the scientific proof of what causes so much variety in a plural system. How can we navigate the morass of this kind of thinking? The world says to embrace personal truth. Elohim shows a better way.

Elohim states unequivocally that truth is not subjective. It is objective. And only Elohim is in a position to show us what objective truth is because only Elohim is outside the system we are steeped in. There IS absolute truth. It IS objective. And Ruach HaKodesh is the tool that Elohim has given us so that we know what that truth is. Remember that Ruach HaKodesh is Jesus’ own Spirit (a member of Yahweh, the  singular Trinity, Father-Son-Spirit God Almighty). Jesus is truth (John 14:6). Ruach HaKodesh is truth. They are BOTH truth because they are BOTH indivisible from the other. How do WE know truth? Our spirit is transformed upon salvation and sealed by Ruach HaKodesh (Ephesians 1:13). Our spirit recognises the truth of Ruach HaKodesh and lets our soul know it. That is one of the ways we recognise truth. The Word is another. Truth doesn’t contradict the Word and the Word doesn’t contradict the Truth. They are the same (which means whenever we see a discrepancy we don’t understand one side of the equation properly).

We were given a spirit of truth (John 14:17, 16:13). The Spirit of Truth is the invaluable guide, corrector, teacher, and comforter that would not be able to guide, correct, teach, or comfort if He was NOT true. Only OBJECTIVE TRUTH can do ANY of those things because they are what the Father wills for us to walk in and ALL the things of the Father are TRUE (Philippians 4:8) and operate in TRUTH (Psalm 119:160).

Daily Affirmation of the Goodness of Elohim: Genesis 1:31

“And God saw everything that he had made and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning, a sixth day.” Everything that Elohim created was good. The land. The lights. The birds. The snake. The people. The seed. It was ALL good. NOTHING was bad. Everything that followed came from violation of restrictions, NOT because they were in ANY way bad. Everything and everyone was PERFECT – in the sense that there was nothing bad. Elohim is not a maker of damaged goods. Elohim CANNOT make damaged goods. Everything and everyone is made GOOD in EXACTLY the way He meant them to be. It is our fallen nature and our fallen environment that twists us into what we are not meant to be: broken. Jesus’ sacrifice restores us to GOODNESS and right standing before Elohim: whole. What a GOOD God that didn’t will for us to be – or to remain – broken.

Your Daily Confession of Elohim’s Goodness:

I taste and see that Yahweh is good; I am blessed because I take refuge in Him.

Psalm 34:8