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Topic: TRUTH (08/31/23)
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By Em Bonja
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It is essential that we have a firm grasp on absolute truth. It is our foundation, our rudder, our security, even our hope. Biblical truth provides us with the answers to life’s mysteries as far as we need to know them in this life. It also provides the pathway to the next life—eternity through Jesus Christ’s life, death, and resurrection.
However, we are faced with questions and dilemmas every day needing an understanding of the truth of a given situation. We pray for the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit and use Scriptural input for these.
Some Years ago, I met a woman through a small group I led. There was a mentoring aspect to the group, and I spent time with each woman individually. We knew each other across a couple of years together and shared a number of meals together. She was quiet in demeanor and spoke and shared freely from a wealth of Scriptural knowledge. When my husband and I eventually relocated, our move was sudden and the number of people we moved away from was more than we could stay connected to.
After five years since we’d been in contact, I received an email from her husband about deep distress in their home and in her life in particular. She had locked herself in their master suite for the previous six months (leaving in the middle of the night to gather food from their kitchen). They had long since left attending church and were not well-connected in any community. He found me on her email thread and reached out.
The extent of the difficulty stunned me as I recalled how I knew her. Somehow, the larger truth of her life had remained hidden. As he described the person I thought I had known, I puzzled over the obscurity of truth in this situation. Our friendship had never progressed beyond obvious truth. If we want to be known or know another, a choice to do so must exist from both parties of the relationship.
Now, in three days, my husband and I will make a trip back to our former home city, and I will make a visit during which I might or might not get to see her in person, any more than talking through a locked door. I do not know any truth about the situation beyond the input of her husband, whom I do not know. I have no truthful picture of what I will encounter.
I only know that God knows the whole truth. I know He loves and cares for her and her family. I know He has a plan. In an unlikely turn of events, I know I must go. It will be a moment-by-moment opportunity to perhaps be the link to the help they need. Truth will only become clear in the reality of the encounter and must be responded to with no advance time to draw on my own resources, with only the resource of God Himself in that moment.
I realize we must not be afraid of moving forward with only the truth of any given situation as we know (or don’t know) it. “Faith is being sure of what we hope for, and certain of what we do not see.” (Hebrews 11:1, NIV) That does not mean we get what we hope for. It means to me that we trust the outcome; we trust the God who is in charge of the outcome. That must be true in our daily questions and dilemmas as well as in the larger world we inhabit.
(Truth as closely as I perceive it)
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