What if Truth is a person?

In my own pursuit of Truth, I threw myself into many abstract ideas and philosophies about my existence on this earth. And some of them resonated in part, but they always felt like a far off concept that I could never fully grasp with both hands. I had glimpses, and sometimes I had these overwhelmingly profound and consuming experiences that I could never communicate with words, I just knew that I had tapped into something supernatural. But it would eventually always leave me.

I remember saying to myself, almost as a self-soothing mantra, after having one of these experiential highs - “it’s about the integration now…” - as I struggled to cope with and make sense of coming back to this material reality, with a far heavier come down than any drugs I’d ever taken. How many experiences would it take for this “truth” to become fully alive in me? I tried and tried to ‘be a light’ in the spaces I found myself in, but I kept falling back into a deep depression, as the people around me weren’t seeing what I could see and I couldn’t be it to them. So I went back to chasing the next experience, for the next “energetic upgrade”.

“If I could just make my life the ceremony…” I thought to myself. So I sat in my bedroom, lighting my sage and pulling my oracle cards and trying to meditate my way into being able to face the day. But the truth was that I was stuck in sin, and I realised that I needed a Saviour outside of myself to break the cycle and pull me out of it.

That’s when I met Jesus.

Something profoundly supernatural happened in me when I desperately surrendered my life to Him, a “get up and go” instinct, but not a fight or flight one - an encouragement, a purpose. Life was now alive in me. My depression was instantly replaced with joy. My anxiety replaced with peace. My voice was released from the cage it had been trapped in, and suddenly there was a roaring power behind it that couldn’t be tamed - I couldn’t stop singing! I knew that something was radically different when forgiveness began to brew in my heart towards a person that had deeply betrayed me. I began to see people with the eyes of love and compassion, and to pray for mercy on them, instead of cursing them. I was new.

The Bible says that “anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!” (2 Corinthians‬ ‭5‬:‭17‬, ‭NLT‬‬). And that “those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there.” (Galatians‬ ‭5‬:‭24‬, ‭NLT‬‬)

I didn’t know that the Truth I was looking for, in all of those supernatural experiences, was a person. And that to know Him, I needed to leave my sinful ways behind and become one with Him. But in the moment that I said “yes” to Jesus and turned from being God of my own life, I received His Spirit. The veil that clouded my vision was lifted, and I could see Him for who the Bible says that He is.

Jesus said of the Holy Spirit “When the spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth” (John 16:13, ESV)

The Good News is that Jesus died to give us freedom from sin, the thing that separates us from God, so that we can live righteously with Him, as intended! He promised that it was better for Him to go away so that He could send us the Helper (John 16:7), so that in Christ, we are no longer separated from Truth because the Spirit of Truth dwells within us.

Now I get to know Him, intimately, because wherever I go, He is there. And as I move through life with Him, I get to experience the life of His presence.

“It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.” (Galatians‬ ‭2‬:‭20‬, ESV‬‬)

So if Truth is what you’re searching for, (or Love, or Peace, or Joy…) wouldn’t you like to know Him personally too?