PACKAGING faith for easy bite-sized
helpings, and for a comprehensibility we can handle, is an awfully enticing
temptation. Articles like this attempt to package faith. I would normally steer
well clear of providing ‘answers’, but this construct, like others I’ve
‘packaged’ is, I believe, sound and reliable.
Voices of Eternity
There are three quite essential voices that
God speaks resoundingly from eternity and these voices can be heard eternally,
through the fabric of life itself. These voices of God cannot change and do not
ever need to change. They satisfy the human hunger and provide physical
sustenance, truth for the mind, and love for the soul (the heart ‘representing’
the soul).
Three Voices
The voice for the body is physical
sustenance – to keep the body alive and healthy through the intake of
good food. The voice for the mind is truth – to receive God’s truth and
accommodate it; the intake of good truth (is there any other kind?). The voice
for the soul is love – to receive God’s love and make it known; the intake of
good love (again, is there any other kind?).
Voices are spoken, and God speaks with a
silent tongue, but we may know the voices of God by what the free mind may freely
observe.
Good food, good truth, and good love propel
a person toward a free life – the abundant life of God’s blessing; not a life
devoid of hardship, responsibility, and sacrifice, however.
All throughout life we need to be on our
guard for voices other than God’s. These represent the voices of bad food, bad
truth, and bad love – of kinds there are all through life. These counterfeit
voices look like the real thing, and so much so, many are confused – they appear
to have life when their lives are spiralling. (Grief experiences are the
exception; they have the appearance of spiralling, but we can and do recover
from grief and often are made better for it.)
God’s intent for creation as far as we are
concerned is that we live.
Good food nourishes the body. Good truth
nourishes the mind. Good love nourishes the soul. We need all three, and God
provides all three. This is to be our striving: to make our own, each of these
three.
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The voice for the body is physical
sustenance – to keep the body alive and healthy through the intake of
good food. The voice for the mind is truth – to receive God’s truth and
accommodate it; the intake of good truth (is there any other kind?). The voice
for the soul is love – to receive God’s love and make it known; the intake of
good love (again, is there any other kind?).
© 2014 S. J. Wickham.
Acknowledgement to Sy Rogers.
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