In our world today with so much division and controversy, even with our own genders, many consider truth to be an opinion. God doesn’t make mistakes, especially how we are formed.
I dated a guy several years ago who I heard telling his friends a totally different story about how he and I met. Later when I asked him about it, he said “that’s my truth.”
Friends, absolute Truth exists. Just like a compass tells the exact direction we are going. The Bible is our moral compass for Truth.
In this Holy Week, in reading through the Gospels, I find it fascinating that the Governor Pontius Pilate asked Jesus in John 18:38, “What is truth?” To set up the scene, Jesus had been betrayed, then arrested, and was on trial, all in mere hours, not due process.
“Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?” Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.” 37 Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.” Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”
After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him. But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”–John 18:35-39 ESV
Sadly, much like today, Pilate caved to public opinion and yelling. So many of the same people only four days early on Palm Sunday who cried out “Hosanna,” were the same ones who yellow “Crucify him” on Good Friday.
Four chapters before in the Gospel of John is when Jesus said to Doubting Thomas one of the most important verses in the Bible, ‘Jesus said to him, ‘ I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
That is the Truth.
Friends, now or in 100 years from now, just as it has been for all of history, when an archaeologist discovers a skeleton, that archaeologist will be able to determine if it was a man or woman by skeletal remains and DNA. Our souls and spirits will be either in heaven or hell. No pronouns of how that person “identified” himself or herself will remain. That is the Truth.
May we continue to tell the Truth and nothing but the Truth, so help us God.
What issues are you struggling with today with revealing the Truth?
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Danya Jordan