“Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” (2 Cor 3:17)
“You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32)

We are not just set free from our personal limitations or bondages: we are set free from the limitations of self and released into the understanding that we are one with God in Christ. Truth isn’t what you know; it is not wrapped up in knowledge. Truth will never be found in opinions, however well they are proven and however eloquently they are justified. Truth is a person who is the Way the Truth and the Life. Knowing the truth is knowing Jesus, and understanding that the greatest height and deepest layers of human knowledge are never more than one piece of coloured glass in a kaleidoscope, and cannot even begin to reach the dimension of truth that is only found in Jesus. If our God is the Truth, then truth is a heavenly commodity; we cannot find it through the evidence of science or even the insights of theology, because it exists beyond all things that pass away. Jesus, who is the Truth, tells us that Truth can only be revealed by the Holy Spirit whom we receive from God and whom the world cannot know:

“And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—”the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.”

 (John 14:16-17) Knowledge itself will pass away, as well as this world, and in that day all our truth will turn to ashes. But we can speak truth and we can know truth when we speak love and know love, for this is where the truth resides. When we speak the truth in love “we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.” (Eph 4:15) It is when we love one another that we walk in the truth.

I feel that the Lord is saying this to the Church:

“You are my kaleidoscope. Each one of you is like one of those little pieces of coloured glass. I made you all different, to be different shapes and colours, so that my light can reflect off you in different ways. Just as the mirrors inside a kaleidoscope reflect images off each other to create the appearance of an infinite pattern, so it is that my light reflected off you is creating a pattern in the infinite dimensions of the spirit. As I move the kaleidoscope, so you are arranged differently and the pattern changes. Do not despise or judge those whose shape or colour is different from yours, for I created you that way in order to make my pattern with you. It is my pattern, not yours, and it is more wonderful and beautiful than you could ever imagine. When you love one another and are one with each other, my pattern emerges. When you stand alone in your opinion or ambition, or to fulfil the desires of your flesh or of your minds, you are not part of what I am doing and you create nothing. It is I who sees the pattern, not you; but when I choose to reveal it through you and in you the world will see and they will see me in it.

I am moving the kaleidoscope: some of you will find yourselves with new people in new situations, and they will not be like you. Love them and accept them, and always look to me knowing that I am creating a pattern that you cannot see. But a time is coming soon when it will indeed be visible and many more will come to know me because they will see what I am doing and will want to join themselves to the pattern that I am creating.”