Oprah gives glory to God!

Thank you, Oprah!

I waited patiently for the LORD;
he turned to me and heard my cry.
He lifted me out of the slimy pit,
out of the mud and mire;
he set my feet on a rock
and gave me a firm place to stand.
He put a new song in my mouth,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear the LORD
and put their trust in him.

Blessed is the one
who trusts in the LORD,
who does not look to the proud,
to those who turn aside to false gods.[b]
Many, LORD my God,
are the wonders you have done,
the things you planned for us.
None can compare with you;
were I to speak and tell of your deeds,
they would be too many to declare.
Psalm 40:1-5 NIV

It was truly impressive to watch on TV how Oprah Winfrey, that little abused girl from Mississippi who became the richest and most influential woman in the world, gave in the final episode of her famed talk show all glory to God.

Oprah's all records breaking 25 years running show is about people. Her honest, natural, truthful and hard working way revolutionized American way and brought real people with real problems to tell about real life. Her style exemplifies the Biblical expression phos to alethinon and what it really means - the light of truth upon all people.

Oprah shared many wise teachings she has learned during those years and not less than 32.000 interviews about our lives and existence. The key expression Being validated is a wonderful and practical way of putting our deepest desire into a nutshell. In the deepest sense there is the need to be be validated by God.

However, the validation by God happens only in Jesus Christ. It would have been nice to hear the beloved name of the only Son of God in the finale. But the name Jesus was not mentioned as it apparently is not the habit in the public TV of the United States of America. The holy name of Jesus is rather exclusive and thus reserved to explicitly Christian TV programs.

It is quite extraordinary that such a TV star publicly God from all her heart and really most fitting way to give glory of her success where it really belongs!

Thank you Oprah!

Thank you Jesus Christ!

Veritas

Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time.
For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.
The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
2 Thessalonians 2:5-12 NIV

they refused to love the truth and so be saved
2 Thessalonians 2:10 KJV

There is immediately something unhealthy and not fresh in the air when religious group or teacher does not love the truth.
However, loving the truth is one of the hardest things for us humans and it is much easier just to accept the truth as presented by the group and by those having authority, was that the Pope or the Patriarch or the Bible as interpreted by the group.
It is so hard that loving the truth is a gift from God. This is not so clearly visible in the NIV translation above. King James is closer to the Greek:
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

In my blogs I am dealing with some hard things, like the Truth trip that seems to minimize our Lord Jesus into an insignificant dot in the Cosmos, Geocentric Bible that crushes Chicago 1978 declaration on the inerrant Bible and other not so nice things. Never claiming that I have the truth but rather one who has been given the love to truth and who cannot stand any kind of false teachings about our God or about our world or about ourselves.

But the key to my personal understanding of the ultimate truth is p52.

Veritas forum in action

Veritas Forum
So it has been a most wonderful discovery to learn to know that I am not alone in thinking that p52 is the answer, not 42 as in The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

There are people who have been working on this much before me and are much more qualified and have created the impressive Veritas Forum with huge resources and always giving honor to Jesus Christ.

Veritas Forum info puts the message in p52 in a nutshell

Christ-Centered Vision
We seek to experience veritas not only as a journey, but also as a person. We offer our hardest questions to our presenters in exploration of the radical and ancient claim of truth in the person and story of Jesus Christ. (veritas forum)

And I say Amen!

Actually, we established our Finnish veritas forum before knowing about the big one over the seas.