Search for Truth #3

Matthew 7:14
You can enter God's kingdom only through the narrow gate.  The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose the easy way.  But the gateway to life is small, and the road is narrow, and only a few ever find it.  (NLT)

          The truth about entering the kingdom of God on the narrow way is not found in human philosophies.  Indeed, while this information is the most important truth we will ever access, it is in many ways counterintuitive to human logic--and, certainly to human desires. 
          We will never find the narrow way by an inward search for what makes sense to us.  Too many factors--that have nothing to do with the perspective of God--shape the way we would like spiritual truth to be.  We are influenced by our heritage, our traditions, our cultures, our carnal desires, our rationalizations, our sentimentality, etc.  Seeking truth most often requires that we work to set aside these filters to see clearly the will of God. 
          It takes humility to take God at his word. Launching into complicated and confusing arguments in order to explain away simple truth will always be a human tendency.  Humility turns us toward God instead of toward our own intellects. 
          God has not made truth obscure.  He wants us to know truth.  He has done all he can to place truth before us: he inspired human authors to record his will--his very heart; he preserved these sacred writings for centuries so that every generation would have access to them; he lived out their message by sending his own Son to  walk the narrow way on this earth so we could follow.
          The truth of the message of the narrow way is not confirmed through scholarship; it is confirmed by the experience of obedience.  When we embark on the journey to put the Word of Truth into practice, we see truth in all its glory and blazing clarity.  It sets us free from confusion and an empty way of life.

John 8:31, 32
Jesus said to the people who believed in him, "You are truly my disciples if you keep obeying my teachings.  And you will know the truth and the truth will set you free."