Skip to main content

The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but THE TRUTH


Where do you go for truth?  Your spouse?  The newspaper?  Your heart?  Or maybe you don’t care about truth.  Maybe that’s not important in your life right now.  For some reason, in these times, the “truth” has become TRULY important to me and I am gravely aware of its presence, or should I say, “lack of” its presence.

The “truth” is defined as “in accord with fact or reality or ideal”, by Wikipedia.   I fear the lack of importance placed on knowing and seeking the truth today is horrendous.  Its probably the one thing I fear most, that and spiders J.  Seriously, though, I don’t think we have any idea of how lackadaisical we have become toward this “ideal” – this old-fashioned reality, we used to call “truth”.

Right before Jesus was crucified, He said to Pilate:  “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”

Pilate then asked him, “What is truth?”  (John 18)  In “truth”, Pilate found no charge against our Lord.  Jesus said He came to testify to the truth.  That “truth” that Jesus came to testify about, it wasn’t well received back then and ISN’T well received today either.

Good question for us today though, don’t you think?  What is truth?  Is your truth the same as my truth or vice versa?   I’m not being political here, I am talking about the whole truth – cross-your-fingers-or-you-will-die truth. 

If Jesus said that the reason He was born and came into the world was to testify to the “truth”, then He is Truth.  That makes everything-EVERYTHING-He said, the truth.   When teaching Nicodemus, Jesus told him: 

This is the verdict:  Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.  Everyone who does evil hates the light and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.  But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.  (John 3:19-21)

Living in darkness, away from the truth, Satan can fill us with so many lies that we don’t even know what the truth is anymore.  All we hear is the ridiculous exaggerations Satan whispers.  “you won’t amount to anything” – “you can’t do that” – “you will never be free of that” – “God doesn’t love you” – “that’s unforgivable!” – and all the other lies Satan spits out.

How do I know that?  Cause I have heard AND believed them before.  When you live a lie, or live in denial or fear or darkness, you know nothing else – its so a part of you.  But then, a light shines.  A truth spoken.  Some love given, forgiveness.  An invitation to wholeness extended.  Grace. 

And in that grace, God’s Word, HIS TRUTH, permeates the soul so that the darkness can be shown for what it really is.  Now, when I hear or even think on something false (from Satan), I stop, fill myself with a “truth” and ponder that truth.    I keep myself in the light.  I pray truths all the time.  I hate the darkness.  I hate evil.  I live in THE TRUTH.

I also surround myself with truth - truth-seeking family and friends who believe and live in the truth.   When Jesus said, “everyone on the side of truth listens to Me.” – I take that literally.  I live on the side of truth.  And if I ever go to the other side, the “dark” side, somehow God’s grace brings me back to where I belong – through confession and forgiveness – or however God deems it so – I am brought back to the very place I am supposed to be – IN TRUTH.

God’s will for me and for you is to live in this truth - the whole truth and nothing but the truth.  And that is SO the desire of my heart as well.  I pray for you as Paul prayed in his letter to the Ephesians:

 
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation so that you may know Him better.  I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened (TRUTH)- Sweet Jesus, make it so!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Victory - a habit.

My heart is heavy today – full of despair.   A beautiful woman, I love and thank God for, with an abuse problem, is in ICU.     While high on heroin, she drove her car into a parked semi. What???????????!!!!   Let’s just sit on that for a while.   My despair is NOTHING compared to her despair – her children’s despair.   Her parents’ despair.   This abuse problem has been around for years.   That’s who she is . . . “an addict” (her words). Really?   I have never been addicted to drugs so I don’t understand this addiction, but I have known other “addictions” – I have felt helpless – I have labeled myself  “defeated”.   Hopeless.   I am so sick and tired of Satan and his destruction.   I have had it.     Why do we give him so much power?   He delights in this . . . . this darkness.   No more. I claim in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ – LEAVE THIS WOMAN ALONE! I found a great quote from Charles Gore (British theologian): We are conscious of our own weakness and of
3 comments
Read more

ctrl-Z

Happy New Year!   It’s a new year, a new beginning – the old is gone, the new has come!   YIPEE!   Not that 2012 was so awful – but it’s good to start afresh, don’t you think?   Get rid of some old “bad” habits, put on some new “good” ones.   My husband and I have promised each other we are not going to be “crabby” with each other anymore.   I am horrible!   We will try and talk nicely to each other - that alone will be a miraculous feat!! Sometimes, I just want to take back immediately what I just said – ever want to do that?   At my office, my new cubby partner taught me a wonderful keystroke last year that I told her has “spiritual” meaning.   Seriously! ctrl-Z.   Ever use it?   It un-do’s.   Yep – whatever you type wrong or don’t mean to do – it undoes it.   Ingenuous!   I use it all the time now.    (I know – I’m slow!) What on earth could be the spiritual meaning of ctrl-Z?   Hmmmm, well . . . . how about when I am crabby and disrespectful with my husband (last y
3 comments
Read more

Accept one another . . . in order to bring praise to God !

What a horrendous week it has been for me!   And its only Tuesday (sigh!)   Sometimes I just want to climb into my fifth wheel and wheel away . . . . I don’t care where, just ANYWHERE but here – I hate conflict, don’t you? I think I hate it because conflict tears at my heart – its sin and its wrong.   But can we live in a world, okay let’s just say “in a family” without conflict?   Aren’t we supposed to be a family (whether by blood or by faith) of unity – a Christian community that loves one another and is unified?   Seems simple, doesn’t it?   It ain’t!   One wants this, the other that.   Someone is unhappy or feeling unloved or being pushed around.   There’s manipulation and pride and jealousy – these ARE NOT family traits you know (!)   or for that matter, “fruits” of the Spirit! In all this muck, I have been praying, I have been fasting, and I have sought counsel, both from the Word and from wise prayer warriors.   I have tried to get to the bottom of it all and I have t
2 comments
Read more