1 John 5:6
"Jesus - the Christ! He experienced a life-giving birth and a death-killing death. Not only birth from the womb, but baptismal birth of his ministry and sacrificial death. And all the while the Spirit is confirming the Truth." (The Message)
d365.org speaks of the humanity and divinity of Christ in the experience of baptism and blood, life and death. It writes of the humility in which we must live to allow the divinity of Christ to show forth. Yet it is mostly in the last line of the verse that speaks to me today: The Spirit confirms the Truth.
Rick and I watched the movie Contact last night for the first time in years. I wonder now if we ever had really watched it clear to the end, because I remembered a movie about radio telescopes and outer space aliens and making contact with intelligent life on another world. And while that story-line plays out, last night the message I received loud and clear was a message of Faith and Truth. The lead character, played by Jodie Foster, is denied the chance to go into space because she cannot PROVE scientifically there is a God. The underlying conflict for Jodie is with a romantic interest, a man of faith who challenges her science-only foundation.
Ultimately, Jodie does experience space, through a wormhole that I liken to baptism, and she encounters a Spirit confirming truth on a planet of the star Vega. She returns to earth transformed. She has seen the universal God in space through an indescribable encounter. Yet the very science she formally espoused to deny God, now fails her in her attempt to PROVE her "contact" was real. She must ask the world to believe her on faith alone. I asked myself, is the movie about contact with intelligent life "out there" or contact with none other than God? Regardless, the Spirit was with her on the journey, and the Spirit confirmed for her the Truth of God. Just as the Spirit continues to work in and through us today to confirm our contact with God and Christ.
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