Truth Trumps Sincerity

In one of Paul’s epistles he writes of, “Sincerity and truth.” These two words are coupled together one other time in scripture, by the old man Joshua when exhorting Israel, just prior to his home- going. To divorce the latter from the former (leaving only sincerity), leaves a person with only one leg to stand on. And you can be sure, it will not hold you up in the day of accountability.

My old granny used to say, “Hell is paved with good intentions.” That is, to use the Bible term, “There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Without truth we are simply, sincerely wrong!

If we cannot say to Christ what many sign their letters with, “Sincerely ‘Yours,” then it is a false sincerity. To insincere professors He will say in that last, great day of judgement, “I never knew you.” May God help each of us “to make our calling and election sure.”