Orange Moon Tuesday, June 10, 2025 "Seems... Is"

The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe

"Seems… Is"  

    

 

     There is "seem."  And there is "is."

     "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death" (Proverbs 14:12).

    "The truth is in Jesus" (Ephesians 4:12).

   Appearances often deceive.  Truth never does.  Salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ spiritually births believers into reality and our ongoing quest to know and respond to the peace of heart and power of life known only in the Savior.  "I AM" declared God regarding Himself in the Old Testament.  "I AM" declared the Lord Jesus regarding Himself in the New (Exodus 3:14; John 8:58).  Our Creator and Redeemer refers to Himself in such terminology because He is Himself the core essence of reality, the One - the only One - who existed when nothing else did.  "From everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God" (Psalm 90:2).  All other things and entities have being because God willed and sustains their existence.  "Without Him was not anything made that was made… by Him all things consist" (John 1:3; Colossians 1:17).  This is truth.  This reality.  He is truth.  He is reality in its primary essence.  There is none other.  Our calling in both this life and the next involves our search to think, speak, act, and relate by the fact and power of God's "I AM" in both personal terms of knowing Him, and the practical terms of living accordingly.  "Know the truth… Walk in truth" (John 8:32; III John 1:4).

   Sometimes "seems" and "is" align.  Often they do not.  The Spirit of God and the Word of God unite to tell us when appearances faithfully reveal truth, and when they deceive and mislead.  We seek to walk with God as led by His Spirit and Word into truth as it is, and life as lived in the light of "is" rather than the uncertainty of "seems."  Who is God and what does His Word declare about Him?  This is the question of truth and reality in this moment, and forevermore.  May we be found searching, and may we be blessed in the finding.

"I am… the truth."

(John 14:6)

"Thy Word is truth."

(John 17:17)

"Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

(John 7:24)

Weekly Memory Verse 

   "Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness, He is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous."

(Psalm 112:4)

  

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