TRUTH AND LOVE'S THANKSGIVING TO OUR SAVIOR

TRUTH AND LOVE'S THANKSGIVING TO OUR SAVIOR 

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MEDITATION ON TRUTH

"IN DEATH MEN PASS INTO THE FULLNESS OF REALITY AND TRUTH.  THEY ASSUME THE PLACE THAT IS TRULY THEIRS. THE MASQUERADE OF LIFE, THE HIDING BEHIND POSTURINGS AND FICTIONS, IS NOW OVER.

WE ARE WHAT WE ARE IN TRUTH. JUDGMENT CONSISTS IN THE REMOVAL OF THE MASK OF DEATH. FOR JUDGMENT IS SIMPLY TRUTH ITSELF, ITS MANIFESTATION. CERTAINLY THIS TRUTH IS NOT IMPERSONAL.

GOD IS TRUTH, TRUTH  IS GOD, IS A "PERSON". 

TRUTH CAN BE JUDGING, DEFINITIVE, ONLY IF IT HAS A DIVINE CHARACTER. GOD IS JUDGE IN SO FAR AS HE IS TRUTH ITSELF. BUT GOD IS TRUTH FOR US AS THE ONE WHO BECAME MAN, WHO HIMSELF BECAME THE MEASURE OF MAN.

HENCE GOD IS THE CRITERION OF TRUTH FOR US IN AND THROUGH CHRIST.

HEREIN LIES THE REDEMPTIVE TRANSFORMATION OF THE IDEA OF JUDGMENT THAT CHRISTIAN FAITH HAS BROUGHT ABOUT.

THE TRUTH THAT JUDGES US HAS ITSELF GIVEN US A TRUTH  OF A SPECIAL KIND, THE TRUTH  OF BEING LOVED BY TRUTH. " 

 

FROM THE CLASSIC BOOK,  "CO-WORKERS OF THE TRUTH" BY JOSEPH CARDINAL RATZINGER, "MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR, NOV. 24. IGNATIUS, 1992 (TODAY'S POPE EMERITUS BENEDICT XVI.)

 

       MEDITATION ON LOVE 

"IF I COULD SPEAK IN ANY LANGUAGE IN HEAVEN OR ON EARTH BUT DIDN'T LOVE OTHERS, I WOULD ONLY BE MAKING MEANINGLESS NOISE LIKE A LOUD GONG OR A CLANGING CYMBAL.

IF I HAD THE GIFT OF PROPHECY, AND I KNEW ALL THE MYSTERIES OF THE FUTURE AND KNEW EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING, BUT DIDN'T LOVE OTHERS, WHAT GOOD WOULD I BE?

AND IF I HAD THE GIFT OF FAITH SO THAT I COULD SPEAK TO A MOUNTAIN AND MAKE IT MOVE, WITHOUT LOVE I WOULD BE NO GOOD TO ANYBODY.

IF I GAVE EVERYTHING I HAVE TO THE POOR AND EVEN SACRIFICED MY BODY, IF COULD BOAST ABOUT IT; AND IF I DIDN'T LOVE OTHERS, I WOULD BE OF NO VALUE WHATSOEVER 

 

LOVE IS PATIENT AND KIND. LOVE IS NOT JEALOUS OR BOASTFUL OR PROUD OR RUDE. 

LOVE DOES NOT DEMAND ITS OWN WAY. LOVE IS NOT IRRITABLE, AND IT KEEPS NO RECORD OF WHEN IT HAS BEEN WRONGED. IT IS NEVER GLAD ABOUT INJUSTICE. BUT REJOICES WHENEVER THE TRUTH WINS OUT.

LOVE NEVER GIVES UP, NEVER LOSES FAITH, IS ALWAYS HOPEFUL, AND ENDURES THROUGH EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE. LOVE WILL LAST FOREVER, BUT PROPHECY AND SPEAKING IN UNKNOWN LANGUAGES AND SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE WILL ALL DISAPPEAR.

NOW WE KNOW ONLY A LITTLE, AND EVEN THE PROPHECY REVEALS LITTLE! BUT WHEN THE END COMES, THESE SPECIAL GIFTS WILL ALL DISAPPEAR.

 

IT'S LIKE THIS: WHEN I WAS A CHILD I SPOKE AND THOUGHT AND REASONED AS A CHILD DOES. BUT WHEN I GREW UP, I PUT AWAY CHILDISH THINGS. NOW WE SEE THINGS IMPERFECTLY AS IN A POOR MIRROR, BUT THEN WE WILL SEE EVERYTHING WITH PERFECT CLARITY. ALL THAT I KNOW NOW IS PARTIAL AND INCOMPLETE, BUT THEN I WILL EVERYTHING COMPLETELY, JUST AS GOD KNOWS ME NOW.

THERE A THREE THINGS THAT WILL ENDURE - FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE - AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE."

 

FROM THE CLASSIC BOOK, "THE BEST OF THE BIBLE" 365 MUST-READ BIBLE PASSAGES"  NOV. 24, TYNDALE HOUSE PUBLISHERS, INC. WHEATON, ILLINOIS, 1996

George H. Kubeck