The Truth will set you free

We are getting ready to wrap up our study at Kaleo walking through the chapters of Love Wins. The book has provided a good platform for us as we've journeyed together in this discussion. The best part of the book, naturally, is the end. The Good News is Better Than That. Bell spends the chapter discussing the issue of trust.

Truth is, that we pretty much all have trust issues. One person feels unworthy, the other feels overqualified. Some feel unwanted, and some feel like they are the center of the universe. Some people feel handicapped to help the world. Some people feel like they've single hand-idly saved the world. But to each person, Jesus is there calling us into a better story.

When truth is extravagant, it becomes hard to swallow for most. But there lies the issue, the Truth is extravagant. If it was anything less, it would not be the Truth.

Even though for most, this extravagant truth is a tall order to swallow, deep within our hearts we wish it to be real. We long and yearn for it to be the Truth. Did you know that we are designed for glory? God glorifies us as He has made us in His image, and being so as receivers of glory in the image of God, we also are glory givers. Our only hope of living a life where we find “happiness” and joy, is by living a life for God and receiving glory for Him, and then in turn giving it back to Him in worship.

This is the story of all creation. Even the beauty of the trees reflect the glory of God, the earth declares the work of His hands and gives Him glory. So, how much more as we are human, created in His image, do we carry this beautiful glory and the responsibilities of it?

But to begin to do that, to begin to live in the way we are created to live, we must accept God's story for us. There is no alternative to finding life.

Here is the truth: God created you in His image, God loves you in an unconditional way, there is nothing you can do to make yourself more worthy of His love, there is nothing you can do to make yourself unworthy of His love. The Love simply is. This is the Truth, trust in Him - this is your story.