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"Intrinsic Truth"

2 Timothy 2:15 (ERV)Do your best to be the kind of person God will accept, and give yourself to him. Be a worker who has no reason to be ashamed of his work, one who applies the true teaching in the right way.

Meditating on the Word is about studying the Word by taking in the word until I understand it, until I know it's intent. It must start with intrinsic understanding-what is being said? What truth is being revealed within these words? What is essential within this that I am studying? This is a humble process for me. I lay down my tendency to interpret based on egocentric truisms. I then reflect on the Word so I see myself in perspective to it- I must come to the humble-of-heart place where I am determined to hear what it has to say, not what I want it to say. How deeply do I allow truth into my life? 

With intrinsic understanding I may then see it, experience it, in extrinsic ways. When talking with friends, their feedback will reflect perspective back to me. Life situations will help define it. Life happens, truths become more self evident.

I've found in the past that I would see a part of truth in the word, become energized, even ecstatic over it, and it would be a momentary passion that did not transform me. I lived from one “feel good” moment to the next. Within me there was a sense that there must be...more! I want life transforming truth. God's truth is active, not static. It isn't just sitting on a page in the Bible. God's truth is active and alive (embodied in Christ, the living Word). It has, and always will have transforming action. To desire transforming truth is to recognize that the truth will transform all that it interacts with. How deeply do I allow truth into who I am? The depth of my vulnerability, in much part, determines the depth of transformation that takes place in me. I desire the truth intrinsically understood first becoming the essential truth understood and experienced with a depth of vulnerability that produces transformation.


I'm beginning to get this.

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