Proverbs 30:5 KJV
"Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him".
Pontius Pilate: To Jesus
And what is 'truth'? Is truth unchanging law? We both have truths. Are mine the same as yours?
What is truth? Pilate’s answer to hos own question could be a question asked in despair. How do we know right and wrong, good and evil, what is the right thing to do in any situation? How can anyone believe in a universal truth that transcends this world of suffering and despair?
Whatever his motive, he didn't get an answer because the truth was right there, standing in front of him.
Today we , like Pilate, do not recognize the truth. The truth was standing in front of Pilate, to be judged to die or live. Yet he was asking?
I will quote Bob Kaylor when he says "For Pilate, anything that got him advanced in status in the eyes of the emperor was truth. Truth is whatever you decide it is, whatever is most pragmatic, kind of like throwing darts at the wall and drawing targets around them. Actually, Pilate would have been right at home in the 21st century, where truth is always relative."
Yes we are mostly in what I call the Pilate Syndrome: We practice relative truths, making it convenient. We justify our deeds, our wars, our destruction of nature, of human relationships and most of all our destruction of our relation with our God - our creator.
We have the truth in our Bibles yet we ask - What is truth? Instead we should put our trust in God, in Jesus and His word and see the truth work in our lives.
So next time you ask yourself or get asked - What is truth? The answer is simple: It is God and God's word. Here’s the distillation of the truth, according to Jesus in John 3: 17-19:
"17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. "
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