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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!

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