Psalm 119:30 I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.

I remember the first time I saw abstract art. I didn’t know what to make of it. People would stare and cock their heads to one side and say “Hmmm!” Some were challenged to define this new media. Suddenly everyone had an opinion.

You could never be put down for what you saw in abstract art, after all, it was designed to invoke imagination. The truth of the art was to be found in the viewer, in how it touched or moved the viewer. No one was wrong, everyone had a right to their own opinion.

Unbelievers scoff at the idea of absolute truths. It offends their sensibilities. It denies them of their right to free thought. It calls in to question their ability to judge. Most people I have met who take this line of reasoning in reality do not understand truth.

Truth is. It does not change because of your understanding, agreement, awareness or presence. Does that sound vaguely familiar to those of you who read scripture?

Malachi 3:6a For I am the Lord, I change not;

To know the truth one must come to know the Lord who declared “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life”. Without Christ, life is but abstract art, and everyone has an opinion.

Hebrews 6:12 (KJV)That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

I graduated high school with a 86.5 grade average, the bottom of the top ten percent of my class. Sounds dull and should not be applauded because I did it without taking my books home and doing the home work.

Later in life I discovered that things were not always going to be as easy as it seemed. I’d missed out on the most important aspects of education, striving for excellence by setting goals and attaining them. I robbed myself of a most excellent future by making false assumptions and not valuing the hard work of others that had set a good example for us all.

Now, years later, I apply that learned lesson to my Christian walk. I do not sit and listen to the preachers and teachers and ignore my homework. Being all you can be in Christ cannot be achieved in idle ease. Sure Christ has forgiven me of my sins, but that is not all there is to knowing Christ and the power of His love. Sure the Holy Spirit has been given as our spiritual tutor but He doesn’t just instruct us on Sunday.

Philippians 3:13-15 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

Please brothers and sisters in Christ, do not settle for anything less then what God has waiting for you.