Thoughts on Total Truth

I was just thinking about a point that impressed me after I finished reading Nancy Pearcy's book Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity

Her book attempts to liberate Christianity from its bondage to dualism and its intrinsic hypocrisy, and to encourage Christians to embrace the integrated, whole, and consistent reality revealed in Scripture. In the book's last chapter, Pearcy emphasizes how crucial authenticity is to the Christian message. The world is full of inconsistencies and incongruities, full of lies and empty rhetoric. People are weary of it. They want to know that there is real truth...they want to see real people being authentic to the hilt. They are hungry to see people living as if there were an "author". Authenticity. It is not easy. It is painful. It is humbling. However, it is the message which this generation is aching for, and it can only be found in true biblical Christianity lived out to the extreme...lived out at any cost...lived out to the death. The world is not dumb. It is not deceived. They are not impressed by piety, by puffed up theology, by imitations of other people's facades. They are awed by love. Awed by implicit trust in a Sovereign Creator. Awed by a voice that says, " Though He slay me, I will trust in Him. "
Awed by radical obedience at the expense of our own personal wants, plans, and lives.

Love is NEVER easy. There is never a "good" time for love. There is only daily, unceasing, repetitive, self emptying, love. Love that sends you crying at the feet of Christ begging for the strength to keep on loving. Love that bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love that is impossible without abiding in He who is Love incarnate. Love which is a daily repeated death.

Obedience and trust are NEVER easy. If they are easy...something is seriously wrong. If we feel comfortable with our obedience...something is seriously wrong. God asks for wholehearted, undiluted obedience, and the more we obey, the more He asks of us. He is the omnipotent Sovereign...we are not our own, we were bought with the ultimate price. His will is to be done every day...not ours. His kingdom is to be advanced every day...not our own. It hurts, and it is hard, yet it is the source of the truest happiness and the most satisfying joy, for, "In His presence is fullness of joy and at His right hand are pleasures forevermore."

So, Christ calls us to take up our cross daily, and to lay down our lives daily, for then
and only then will men see Truth incarnate.