Trite and True - Part 2

Pastor Kyle continues that there is a circle we go through when we learn a truth, especially in a spiritual truth. When a person first becomes a Believer, the Holy Scriptures leap off the pages and lights the human heart. These simple and yet earth-shatteringly profound truths start deeply resonating in the heart. But, here is what happens. Somehow along the way, the more we hear something; those once life-changing truths can become somewhat trite, lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition. It can become something that we know is true in our heads, but no longer something that encourages is in our hearts. It stops scratching that spiritual itch. The earthly realities that we are experiencing don’t seem to line up with the heavenly reality that we read about in the Bible.

Does that sound familiar to any of you in April 2020? In only a way that God can, He can take those things that were once true to us and became trite, and He can switch them yet again to resonate so deeply, becoming profoundly true at a level that we didn’t know was possible. One truth that we need to know is that life without God is fruitless and empty. When we do not continue to allow the truths of God that we know to transform us from the inside out, even the most experienced Christian can experience this sense of emptiness and fruitlessness. Maybe you used to operate in His strength and power but things slowly and steadily drifted away. Now, you find yourself just living out the daily grind. Perhaps the truth that you know in your head feels somewhat trite and not quite as life-changing as they used to. Some may be physically productive but feel spiritually empty. Up until this virus hit the world, this scenario fits our society to a tee. We live in a world that is physically fruitful and productive, but is spiritually empty.

I am praying that many people who might never felt a need for God, would begin to seek God wholeheartedly. For some reason, this whole Coronavirus epidemic might have created the first moment in lives where they realize that they are powerless apart from God. Let’s continue to pray for this virus to get whipped out in Jesus’ name. And at the same time, trust that God is working through the pandemic that we are living through right now.

For those of us who know the Lord, perhaps the pandemic brings new meaning to the age old truth of the Bible an our own hearts. And for those who are still unsure about the things of God, the Bible and Christianity, let’s pray that this pandemic leads to a massive realization that life without God is fruitless and empty.

If you do not know God and the sum of your life is just “eat, work, sleep, repeat”, that would be so empty. I’m here to tell everyone who does not know the Lord that He love you and has a purpose for you today. God wants your life to be fruitful and abundantly full.