Spirit and Truth


But the hour is coming, and is now here,
when true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth;
and indeed the Father seeks such people to worship him.
God is Spirit, and those who worship him
must worship in Spirit and truth.
John 4:23-24

Ours is a story religion. It is the enactment in space and time of the drama of God’s creation, with particular focus on His evolving relationship with us and ours with Him. It has a beginning and an end (an Alpha and Omega). It is a story billions of years in the making. It’s climax is the life, death and resurrection of our Lord, Jesus the Messiah, the Christ. The generations since are part of the denouement. The loose ends are being tied up. We are reaching a resolution, and the end approaches. The author, God, has been in control of this perfect story throughout, right to the conclusion.

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We are children of a breathing God. God’s Breath animates all of creation and shows to us God’s grace, God’s favor toward humans as His special creation. And just as God has breathed life into us, God, too, is breathed with this special creation, this humanity, in the person of Jesus, the Messiah, the Christ, the Word of God. (Try to say a word without breathing.) The truth embodied in the Breath of God is the very truth that spoke creation into being - the Eternal Word, the Way, the Truth and the Life. And each breath we take is His, as is each exhalation.

Our breath is the most fundamental truth about us. If we stop breathing, we die. In the end, our only hope is to place our faith in the Breath of God, the Divine Breath that will sustain us past our death, because it is eternally true. Though our bodies may stop breathing, God never does. When our bodies stop breathing, He breathes for His children who have accepted that the Divine Breath is the only Breath, eternally true. If we believe God worthy of our faith and our trust, then we can, we must only see his worthiness in Spirit and in truth, in the Breath that sustains us all, in the three persons - the Father, the Son (the Truth), and the Holy Spirit - the one holy God.

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