Editorial August 22, 1988 Issue

The search for Truth

Ann Kenrick

The quest for knowledge and for an understanding of the deep things of God has gone on since early Biblical times. Abraham, at God's direction, left his own people and country to search for a spiritual inheritance. "He looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God,"^{Heb. 11:10.} we read in Hebrews.

We can feel something of Abraham's alertness when we read how he received the news that he would have the son whom God had promised him. The book of Genesis records that Abraham was sitting in the door of his tent "in the heat of the day." We can well imagine that many others were sleeping at that time! When three men appeared, he immediately ran out to meet them and showed them hospitality. They had come to tell Abraham and Sarah, his wife, that God would give them an heir.^{See Gen. 18:1—10 .} And God's promise was kept in the birth of the son, Isaac, who became the grandfather of the children of Israel.

We, too, can be alert and ready to receive good as we search for a deeper understanding of God's immediate presence and purpose in our lives. We can sit, so to speak, at the tent-door of consciousness looking outward, away from self, toward the infinite possibilities of our true spiritual selfhood, which is always at one with its creator, God. Then we see beyond the immediate situation and reach out to that divine intelligence which has its source in God, Mind, and is ours by reflection. Our willingness to break away from the familiar human patterns of thought, and to seek the wider dimensions of spiritual life, strengthens our quest for and response to Truth.

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