JESUS = TRUTH

Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" (John 18:38).

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me (John 14:6).

The ways of the Lord are mercy and truth (Psalms 25:10).

These days there are a lot of people, like Pilate, who are filled with cynicism about the truth.  I'm sure that during his days in government service there were many who swore to him that they were telling the truth but they were really lying.  If we pay attention to the news these days we find that left-leaning government officials lie with impunity and a sympathetic leftist news media will spin and lie to cover the first lies that were told.*  The free citizens of the United States of America are like Pilate--they are sick of the spin zone!

Not only does the cynicism result from the public sector but from the private as well.  Money is hard to come by.  When a product doesn't live up to its advertising it hurts.  Products that do not live up to billing, insurances that do not pay up because of technicalities, charities that eat up most of their donations in administrative expense all add to the cynicism about truth that many people feel.

William Barclay has pointed out that the Greek word for truth (aletheia) is used in three different ways in the New Testament: 1. The truth as distinguished from falsehood.  2.  The genuine as opposed to that which is unreal or counterfeit.  3.  The truth is not simply an intellectual pursuit, it is something that is to be done.  In Christ we come face to face with the author of truth.  He is the genuine.  He is the one whom we must follow and thus do the truth, If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not do the truth (I John 1:6).

Our Father's Love,
Tom