Seven Progressions of Truth
By Chip
Brogden
There are
seven stages of awareness through which we must pass through in order to bring
ourselves out of bondage towards the fullness of Truth and into the life of an
Overcomer. This describes the spiritual growth of the Christian from sinner, to
seeker, to believer, to disciple, and to overcomer.
I. Hungry
For Truth
II. Seeking For Truth
III. Choosing The Truth
IV. Accepting The Truth
V. Knowing The Truth
VI. Believing The Truth
VII. Living The Truth
II. Seeking For Truth
III. Choosing The Truth
IV. Accepting The Truth
V. Knowing The Truth
VI. Believing The Truth
VII. Living The Truth
I. Hungry For Truth
Theologians
describe it as a God-shaped vacuum in our heart. However you choose to describe
it, there is a capacity for God within every man and woman. Some seek to fill
the void with other things, but man is never truly satisfied until he finds
communion with His Creator. Jesus says, “Blessed are they which do hunger and
thirst after righteousness, for they will be filled.” The most amoral people in
the world are the ones who have no hunger for Truth. They are the ones who love
Darkness more than Light.
It is
better to give food to a hungry man than to force-feed people who are not
hungry. This is one of the failures of evangelicalism. People have not been
taught to tell the difference between a hungry person and a person who is full,
so they indiscriminately cast their pearls before swine. Jesus did not reveal
Himself to everyone, nor did He minister to everyone He encountered. He
qualified them on the basis of their spiritual appetite.
Who am I?
Where did I come from? Where am I going? What does it all mean? It is not so
much our seeking the Truth as the Truth drawing us to Himself. That drawing us
to Himself is interpreted by our soul as spiritual hunger. Without this we
cannot come to Truth.
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