It breaks my heart to see people seeking the truth in man and not having that one on one relationship with Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior,bless His heart and soul. The great thing about receiving the truth from the Blessed Trinity is that you experience it and see it. With man,all you might gain is some knowledge provided whom you are receiving it from knows truth. How can one discern what's truth and what's untruth? John 14:15-17 Tells us that Jesus will ask God on our behalf to give us the spirit of truth provided we are ready. We can only be ready when we can keep those two commandments. It's not an overnight trip with Jesus Christ,it's a long and narrow road and a very laborous one also. 1John and the writtings of Paul have an account of this journey. You'll never learn what this journey is all about unless you travel that road which Jesus has mapped out especially for you. The hard part is getting started. It's all up to you,your desire,your willingness and how much suffering are you willing to go through to take this journey. One is going to need to be fearless,which means no doubts or worries, just 100% faith and trust in Jesus Christ. Most people want to take the easy way,the highway to perdition. Most people think they know truth because they went church,bible studies,read books and received information from sources other than straight from Jesus Christ.To know Jesus is to have walked with Him. To know God's word is to know Jesus Christ and to have suffered as He has suffered. People have this crazy idea that when Jesus died for the sins of the world that,we don't have to do anything but accept the fact that He is our Savior and He died on the cross and was resurrected. We have to work for our salvation,it's not free. You read and study the scriptures but by not working them is nothing more than vain knowledge. How can you prove the word of God is the truth without works? Let me give you an example: If I were to take an auto repair manual and read it,does that qualify me enough to go work on that car? Unless I have someone show me what tools and parts I need and shows me how to fix it properly I, shouldn't work on that car because I don't know what I'm doing. Now if someone who knows what they're doing shows me the right way to do it then I will be working what it says to do in the manual. Would you have plumber teach you how to work on a air conditioner? Do they have stock brokers teach medicine? So why don't we have Jesus teach us how to make it home with God? Many people book vacations with travel agents because they trust them enough to give them a care-free vacation. But sometimes they don't get what they expected. they wind up at a dump for a hotel or it's located in a bad part of town,etc.,etc. Same thing happens when man trust man with their spiritual guidance, only problem is though when you go on this trip there's no coming back. Who's your travel agent?
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