My dear mother often quoted the little quip, “Some people wouldn’t know the truth if it was staring them in the face.” Pilate was such a one. He asked Jesus, “What is truth?” and it was standing before him.
God’s truth can be found in one of two places: on paper, or in a Person. Jesus said, “I am the...truth.” And the Bible tells us, “Thy Word is truth.” And these two agree in one, the incarnate and the inscribed.
God’s truth is always raw, naked, and unvarnished. He doesn’t disguise it with cosmetic coating or in decorative dress. In the case of God’s truth, what you see is what you get. Spurgeon says, “Truth will only be desired by truthful men.”
The final authority in all matters pertaining to time and eternity is to be found only in the Christ of God and His Word! Truth tops everything! Even love. Nothing comes before it! It is the only means to test everything and everyone in life. Without it, as in the day of the Judges, “...every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes.”
“One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.”
(C.S. Lewis)
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