Jesus' Truth Does Set Us Free

This morning I read this from Jacob the Baker:

“By remembering that the truth will not set us free if we honestly want to be slaves.” (p. 82 Jacob’s Journey)

Jesus once told his disciples: 

31 Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, ‘If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples; ³²and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.’ (John 8)

I have been doing a ton of reading, these day, that I find myself not understanding.  Not completely that is.

And yet I keep reading.   

I think I keep reading because there is a truth in what I read that I need to listen to.

Have you ever found yourself reading a sentence, or a paragraph, over and over again to see if there is something you might be missing in the words?

Well, that has been my journey the last month or so. 

The books that I have been reading have a truth in them that fills my heart with such amazing joy. Because I am learning about the spiritual wisdom of Jesus.

I have had a feeling, since the mid-1990s, that there was something that the organized church was leaving out of Jesus’ person. I didn’t know what it was; but I intuitively knew something was missing.  

While I was living at my lake home, the first time I retired  in 2001-2009, I became caught by the wisdom messages in Proverbs 8 and 9.

What Lady Wisdom had to say made such powerful since to me.  However I didn’t connect that information to Jesus.  Not consciously that is.

Recently I have learn the connection.  

It has been life giving.  

This old truth, new to me, has truly set me free.

I wish I could explain it more; but I seem unable to explain it any better than what I wrote above.

I’ll work on it.

In the mean time read Proverbs 8 and 9 and see what you hear.

Also try the Gospel of John.  All of it.