God is Life, Truth and Love. How may we know this? Is it simply because the Bible says so; or, does the Bible say so because it is so? "Let us know the root of the whole matter." If the former, then we might safely worship the Bible; if the latter, worship God. And this not because we value the Bible less, but God more. "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." The Bible is our text-book it is true, but not Truth. God is Truth. We can not put principle in a book, or in finite words. Shall we be led by the Truth; or, shall we seek to lead the Truth? "God is his own interpreter, and he will make it plain." God is Truth; because there is nothing truer than truth out of which Truth could be evolved; i e. it would ever require the principle and understanding of truth to make Truth. God did not make truth; He is Truth. And in like manner, it must ever require life to make Life. God did not, could not, therefore, make life. He is Life. And on the same basis we see that God is Love,— unselfish Love, and there is in reality no other.
It is therefore clear that Life, Truth and Love are self-existant, and hence positive; and that which is positive must be embodied in the generic term truth. God is therefore Truth, Life and Love, the impersonal triune Deity. The Three-in one-principle, self-evident, self-existant, invincible, immutable Truth. The Spirit of Truth, and he who is led by it, will be led in the way of all Truth. For one ray of divine light let in through the portals of understanding, if followed to its ultimate, will open wide the gates of that city", of which it said, "Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man (mortal) to conceive the things that are in store for them that love Him." He who dwells in this, "dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High," and "His truth shall be thy shield and buckler." 'Tis the right hand of God that leadeth by the side of still waters, and in green pastures, because it leads into harmony, and the reign of harmony is heaven, a state or condition, and not a locality or place.
With God, the infinite and omnipresent Spirit, there is, or could be no place; 'tis one eternal here. Where God is, there is heaven, and God is everywhere; hence, "The kingdom of heaven is within you." "If so be that the spirit of Christ (Truth) dwelleth in you," i. e., is understood and realized by you, the absence of which realization, there could be no heaven for you.
