What a fabulous quote that really is just a paraphrase of Jesus' own words from
the bible:
"You can't understand truth because you care what other men
think about you."
If that's accurate, and being reminded that it was
first spoken by Jesus, after all, then doesn't it stand to reason that so long
as one is bound by the opinion of man, he will be unable to discern, and
thus, understand, much less, know (or, perhaps, even see)
truth as it really is? He likely cannot even call truth truth. So this
being bound by the opinion of man is a big deal. One could
say that it is a major roadblock to seeing truth. (Ah…
artery blockage, if you will.)
Wayne put it this way, "If you
care what other people think about you, you'll never find the truth. Because
you're making true whatever ingratiates you to the people with whom you want to
be ingratiated."
The authority of Jesus is what threatened the
powers that be-d... ok, were. As Wayne points out, the New Testament speaks
extensively of the authority that Jesus had. But, to what authority is it
referring? Because it certainly wasn't granted by man.
Wayne goes on to
say, "It was the authority of an indestructible life. It was the
authenticity of a man who spoke and lived truth, in the context of love. And
that completely overturns the power structures of our day."
The
logical play out is that without truth, you have no authority. (And, if
you are a slave to man's opinion of you, you have not truth.)
Wow. If
that's real authority, and I believe it is, then doesn't that speak
volumes to us on many levels… only one of which is in the authority of the
parent to the child?
How might that kind of authority shape/change a
life?
- With Unveiled Face
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