Tell all the truth but tell it slant

Morning: Psalm 38; Isaiah 44:24-45:7; Ephesians 5:1-14

Evening: Psalm 119:25-48; Mark 4:1-20

‘Tell all the truth but tell it slant’. For Emily Dickinson, ‘The Truth must dazzle gradually, or every man be blind.’ On the surface, Jesus’ parable of the sower is about the Word of God sown and bearing fruit in people’s lives. If you dig a little, though, it is a deeply prophetic, political message about God restoring to Israel her own land and making her fruitful there. Jesus says more than meets the eye, he tells the Truth ‘slant’. He teaches that understanding grows with faith. Blunt Truth is blinding. Truth is often a mystery. Believing is seeing it.