I want to share something that happened during my time with the Lord just a few days ago. There are ongoing discussions here about truth, doctrine, and dogma... and it seemed a good time to share this.
So, I was thinking about the various beliefs, doctrines, ideas, and revelations that are presented to us on a daily basis as truth, both here on AFF and with just about every believer you meet. To mention a few – the rapture, pre-trib, post-trib, preterism, immortal soul, eternal security, Oneness, Trinitarian, Messianic, Calvinism, once saved always saved… I could go on and on. The list doesn’t really seem to end with ideas, doctrines, beliefs, revelations that serve to unite one group of people, and cause division and contention among the rest.
Who is right?
Who really possesses the truth?
What is the truth?
As these questions ran through my mind, my heart was heavy before the Lord. It is an incredible thing to recognize the immensity of the pendulum swing from which these revelations flow – and so how is one to know what to believe?
It seems there are pieces of truth in all of them…. yet also some glaring bit of deception present as well, and the deception is sometimes not readily evident or apparent at first glance, but nonetheless there.
My question to the Lord today was this – how am I supposed to know what to believe about YOU? Which revelation, teaching, doctrine, or idea is the one that truly reveals You to me? Is it even possible for me to be totally right in my doctrine or revelation, or will there always be some untruth in what I believe that will become known to me sometime after I’ve adopted the revelation or doctrine as a lifestyle and tenet of faith?
Is there such a thing as having complete truth or revelation in one’s life? This was the question I laid before the Lord.
And this is the answer that I heard…. The scripture came to mind “seeing through a glass darkly.” I Cor. 13:12
I understood the Lord to say to me: You are seeing through a glass darkly, there is a veil that covers your understanding in this life, but it is there for your protection. There is no way for humanity to completely understand and know Me – such knowledge is too great for you. Thus, deception is allowed to mix and exist among revelation about Me to keep you humble, and to keep you searching after Me. When you realize that something you’ve long held as truth and revelation now seems to have an element of deception or untruth to it, it is simply Me challenging you to dig further, to come closer to Me. The closer you get to Me, it will be like fire purging out the impurities in your life. The closer to Me you come, these deceptions, false ideas, and lies will make themselves known, and will fall away from you. But remember that no human being really understands or knows Me. They can’t. You can only know in part. (
I Cor. 13:12) You would die from the knowledge. It is too great for you to bear.
Remember that I allow the tares and the wheat to grow together until the time appointed. The tares and the wheat are in each one of you. Truth and deception are mixed as a part of each believer. Truth and deception will continue to abide together until the time appointed. Those who truly want to know and understand Me must be willing to go through fires of persecution, difficulty, misunderstanding, heartbreak, loneliness, temptation and times of desperation… for this is the fire I am bringing you to – to weed out the deceptions, lies, and sin in your life. In order to keep you humble, deception and truth will continue to abide together as the tares and the wheat until the time appointed. This is to keep you humble, and always searching after me, so that you do not become proud in spirit.
Remember no human can know all there is to know about me, or else it would kill them. The only way to really know me as much as humanly possible, is through humility and admitting that you really don’t know much or anything at all.
Quit seeking after some new thing that someone says “works”. Quit seeking after some new doctrine, idea, understanding, teaching, miracle, sign or wonder. Those things always have deception mixed in with them. Instead, embrace your trials, embrace the difficult seasons in your life, for this is where you will really begin to know and understand Me. Don’t seek after the teaching, doctrine, revelation, sign or wonder. Seek after ME, and be willing to allow your flesh to pass through the furnace willingly, for this is when you will see me, know me, and find me.
Every religious Christian idea, or organization in the world has some truth.
But when you begin to follow that idea, truth or revelation, and forget to follow and seek Me, deception will come forth. Deception is allowed to mix with all truth so that those who hunger and thirst after Me will not be content with what they’ve received, but will continue to seek and search after Me. Only those who are not content to dwell where they are at, but who hunger and thirst after me, will be the ones that the fire of my presence will continue to purge and cleanse and they will see more of me in their suffering than any other way.
Truth is allowed to dwell with deception in order to bring forth humility in us – for us to constantly be aware that we will never be able to completely know or understand God – or else it would kill us – such knowledge we cannot bear.
Psalms 139:6 “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.” And, then Job said, after contending with his friends, and God for many days,
“…therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.” Job 42:3
This is truly how we will feel when we come face to face with the awesomeness of God. Our flesh will not be able to bear it. We will fall at His feet, broken, repentant, and humbled.
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