The Truth Will Squish Out Series

Monday of 25th Week in Course

It’s one thing for our movers and shakers throughout the world to work hard to destroy the next generation, and our human future, through contraception, abortion and infanticide. What should really irritate us is how hard they work to conceal the truth. But nothing is concealed that will not be revealed, because Jesus is the truth, Jesus is the Resurrection, Jesus is the life. I like to say that the harder the culture, the child-killers and the government try to land their jackboots on the Truth, the more it squishes out and spreads among people of good will. The Truth is like a light, and the Church has been revealing it to the nations for two thousand years. Pope John Paul helped us understand that the Gospel of life is not just a profound reflection on human life. It is not merely a commandment aimed at raising our awareness, even aimed at bringing about significant changes in our anti-life culture and society. It’s not some pie-in-the-sky promise of something better to come. No, the Gospel of life is something concrete and personal, because it is a Person. It is Jesus, who is Life. Truth, Life and Resurrection are one in Jesus Christ.

The process of Truth-telling was going on even before Jesus Christ came to our world. Take a look at the book of Ezra here. The Assyrians, followed by the Babylonians, had empires that were siege and grab economies operating through armies that conquered most of the Middle East. They would plunder the kingdoms they conquered, like Israel, and cart their treasures and their elite peoples and wise men off to another part of their vast territories, essentially trying to destroy every other culture. Cyrus, first of the Persian emperors, did it differently. He realized that if he left peoples and cultures where they had grown up, they would be more content, easier to rule, and more productive of what really is needed by the central government, taxes. So he sent the people of Judah, descendants of Jacob, back from Babylon to Palestine almost as soon as he suppressed the Neo-Babylonian empire. By restoring the Israelite people and culture, and encouraging them to build the Second Temple in Jerusalem, he became Israel’s favorite overlord. In fact, the Scriptures call him a man ordained, anointed by God, in their language, a Messiah. (Not THE Messiah, of course.) So God is able to use even nonbelievers to move forward His covenant people, and to spread Truth through the world. He’s done it at least nine times in the history of the Church, and He will conquer the darkness shadowing our land in His own time and His own way, if we remain faithful to the Gospel.

Through Christ’s words, actions and life, humans are given the chance to know the complete truth concerning the value of human life. Remember that human life finds its fulfillment in the life of Jesus Christ. You and I find our fulfillment by living the life of Jesus. And because we are unique individuals, we each live the life of Jesus Christ in an unique and powerful manner, immersed in his truth and filled with his life-giving blood.

Don’t think that your friends and relatives who don’t read the Bible or profess themselves as Christians are immune to His truth. In every human heart there is a longing for the fullness of life. It is obvious to any human that the way of violence and coercion is wrong. One has to vigorously suppress one’s conscience to deny it. All we need to do is listen to the voice of reason. That’s why Pope Benedict’s address at Regensburg has been so important. He is appealing to all humans to use their reason to understand, and to dialogue with each other from rational principles, from the common understanding among humans of right and wrong. Let’s pray and work toward this objective–that people will stop threatening each other, forcing each other to adopt inhuman practices, especially violence, and listen to the voice singing to them in their hearts: walk without blame, do what is right, and speak the truth from your heart.