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What
is Truth? Pilate
then said to Him, "Are you a king then?"
Jesus answered, "You say correctly that I am a king.
To this end I was born, and for this cause I came into the world, that I
should bear witness to the truth.
Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice." Pilate said to Him,
"What is truth?"
And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to
them, "I find no fault in him."
(John 18:37-38 MKJV) Many
of us are no different from Pilate - disillusioned, discouraged and hopeless,
and we long to know truth.
We believe the experience of hopelessness, failure, and discouragement is
reality.
But scripture makes it clear that we are to let God be true and every man
the liar.
What we are experiencing does not make null and void what God says.
"...
If some did not believe, will not their unbelief nullify the faith of God? Let
it not be! But let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written,
"That You might be justified in Your sayings, and will overcome when You
are judged."" (Romans 3:3-4 MKJV) I
came across the word truth while recently studying John 1.
As I did a word study on the full range of meaning of this word, the
impact of Pilate's question hit me... What is truth?
Scripture must always define things for us and Jesus said, "I am
the way, the TRUTH and the Life."
Since Jesus is truth, we can look at the life of Christ to understand
truth.
What was His life like?
The
Greek word for truth is aletheia.
It is literally defined as a mindset free from being moved by emotions;
free of deceptive, fake and false appearances, of being something it is not;
free of lying and living in untruth; and free of tricking people into thinking
it is something it is not.
The
Life of Christ is FREE of all these things, and because He is my life, I too am
FREE of living a life is not full of truth.
If I try to live in un-truth, I will be miserable because I am not living
according to Christ's life within me.
What
is truth?
His name is Jesus.
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