WTW 2022
23 March
Truth
Truth must be important to you. You say things like “this is my truth,” [or] “truth is what you make it to be,” [like] “truth is what you want it to be,” [and] “what is your truth?”
When Jesus faced Pontius Pilate after being arrested, He said that the reason He came to earth and was born was to testify to the truth. He also said that everyone who is committed to the truth listens to Him. To that Pilate asked, “What is truth?”
Jesus knew truth; He knew what was really going on in the world and what the answers to life’s biggest questions were. He came to address those, to set the record straight. In that sense, He is truth; He is the answer. So to discover truth, we must be willing to hear Him out. We have to be interested in hearing the truth, no matter what it is.
Think about it. Truth can’t be relative. By definition, if it varies from one point of view to another, it can’t be truth. That’s at best an aspect of truth, an angle on reality. It could be close to reality or it could be way off. We’re like ants on the ground trying to make sense of a gigantic world from our limited perspective. We start filling in the blanks and inventing theories about how things must work, what’s important and how to live.
God wants us to discover the truth. He also wants us to find Him, even though He’s not far from each one of us. We’re His children; we were made in His image. These are the reasons He sent Jesus. But we shouldn’t think that this makes us independent of God. No, we actually exist because of Him. God is willing to overlook our ignorance in coming up with our own truth and blazing our own trails. He’s telling all of us to hear the truth and change our minds, to turn away from what we’ve busied ourselves with and pay attention to how He designed things to be. One day He’s going to have Jesus evaluate the state of the world, namely our attitudes and response to Him. How will you fare in that assessment?
-eyn
Wisdom in the WORD 
Powerful!
Thank you for sharing that, eyn.
“So to discover truth, we must be willing to hear Him out. We have to be interested in hearing the truth, no matter what it is.”
One of the conversations from last night, mentioned in this morning’s WTW post, began with questions coming from an entire backdrop of convoluted assumptions. These had to be addressed directly in order to get the conversation on proper footing, and in the process the following observation came into focus.
From the beginning, it was the enemy who paved the way for these sorts of misguided questions… the Pharisees continued in this same pattern of adversarial questions, negatively framed questions, accusatory questions.
Didn’t God say…
Didn’t you…
Are you not…
Do you not…
When the premises are solid, such questions are on solid ground. However, when there are assumptions which are almost always less than the full truth, the backdrop has to be completely demolished and cleared away in order to reset the table.
Mary of Bethany showed the very best way by choosing the one thing which leads most effortlessly to full and complete truth. Sitting at the feet. Listening. Learning. Likely asking questions too. Mostly listening and learning, trusting in the One Who alone is truth, the One Who has the Words of eternal life, the One Who IS Life.
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