Truth Comes to Those Who will have it

   Those who do not possess the truth, who hold to falsehoods, will often run from hearing others. They will not tolerate hearing the other side. They will warn their friends against listening to others, suggesting they will lead them astray.
  They will, in the words of scripture, have heavy ears. I think of the passage in Isaiah 6:10. "Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed."
  This is a condition that applies in politics and in discussing the issues of the day as much as it is a principle for accepting and rejecting the gospel. A truth is a truth, and it applies to political discussions as well as it does to religion.
  Now, whether you believe the scriptures divine or not, consider  on that passage, Isaiah 6:10, as to whether it teaches a truth. If the principle is true, the principle is true, regardless that it is found in a book of scripture.
  We sometimes speak of mental illness. Mental impairment is when the mind is limited. If a person will not consider all things -- if he or she refuses to even consider them, or hear them -- that is mental impairment. If so, we all suffer from this malady, for there are places and thoughts and reasoning we all run from. If we do not want to believe something, there are many ways of shutting it out. We can be too busy to read a news story that contains information we do not want to hear. We can say we tire of the political bickering and have had enough of it.
   We can run from truth. I will suggest, however, truth does not run from knowledge. If we would sincerely know the truth, we must seek it. Truth does not come to him who runs from it, but to him who seeks it out. Those who embrace the search for truth, will come to embrace the truth, itself. And, those who fear the arguments against their beliefs are often imprisoned by falsehoods.
   Mental impairment? It can be of our own choice. We can choose to limit our thinking. We can refuse to hear. We can choose to have heavy ears. We are all crazy, but we are all crazy of our own choice. There are truths we all run from.
   Or, we can take the advice of scripture, which says, "Come now, and let us reason together" (Isaiah 1:18), and, "In the multitude of counselors, there is safety" (Proverbs 11:14).
  Truth is not found in a vacuum. You do not find it by refusing to think, nor by refusing to reason, nor by refusing to even listen to the good words of others. Truth is not found without process. You must go through the steps of finding it if you would have it.
   One of those steps is listening -- even if it means listening to another. Another is pondering -- even if it means pondering the words of someone you disagree with.