Jesus said, you shall know the truth and truth will set you free. Someone else that Truth is so sacred that it is guarded by the King of Lies. The maker of atomic bomb whose name I cannot recall said it in his final days, "I thought that the most powerful weapon in the world is the atomic bomb, but now I know that the most powerful weapon in the world is Truth."
He that has Christ has life, in which it is implicit is that, "he also has the Truth". But alas, it is so easy to trade life for death, beauty for monotony, love for lust, peace for sin and guilt, and truth for lie. I have done all of the above at some point in my life and much more. I have picked my own pocket and plundered my own treasures.
How is it that I traded something so wonderful for something so crass? The answer lies in the mystery and reality of my sinful nature. William Blake penned this poem it in soul piercing excellence. Blake says that the physical eye is a metaphor to dim windows of the soul. That distorts the truth. Hence, the economics of my trade are in shambles.
This Life’s dim windows of the Soul
Distorts the Heavens from Pole to Pole
And leads you to Believe a Lie
When you see with, not thro’ the Eye
The antidote? Jesus said, Let your eye be single.
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