The scriptures repeatedly state that Jesus Christ is full of “grace and truth.”

That is a curious statement to make over and over.

Consequently, there must be something significant about both “grace” and “truth,” especially if those are the two characteristics that Christ is repeatedly said as possessing.

When explored in more depth, it becomes evident that both “grace” and “truth” are two characteristics that are central to Jesus Christ’s mission on earth, and to His Atonement.

They both revolve around the idea of “giving life.”

Consider the following:

Grace – we explored this idea in the previous section.

In short, the glory of God is intelligence, or light and truth … or the capacity to give life.

Grace is an enabling power. In sum, it doesn’t just constitute the ability to reach down and to lift someone else up (to give them greater life), but also the desire and the followthrough of actually using that ability to reach down and to lift someone else up.

Whenever we show grace, we are giving someone else greater life.

The very essence of Christ is to give us life. He is the bread of life. If we accept Him (figuratively speaking eating the bread of life) … we are lifted to a higher plane. In process of time, we are fully healed and made whole.

Truth – there are many voices out there that seek to take life, or to extinguish our souls.

Voices might whisper such things as we are not good enough, we are not smart enough, we are not worthy of Heavenly Father’s love, nobody likes us, we are losers, we might as well as give up.

Unfortunately, sometimes we come to believe these voices, and we begin to whither away and shrink. It is as if the very life blood is leaving our bodies.

The cure to this awful malady is to hear and believe the truth … the whisperings that let us know we are good enough, we are smart enough, that we are needed, that we are wanted, that we are valued, that we are important, and most critical, that we are indeed loved by a Heavenly Father that earnestly desires us as one of his precious jewels.

As we give ear to truth, we too are given even greater life. Quite often, listening to truth, and accepting it, are key to the healing process and to being made whole.