Pilot Post

So I have been feeling quite unmotivated to truly get started blogging. My friend, Kim suggested I blog about the Biscotti she inspired to make. However, today as I was working on my bible study (Discipleship Essentials by Greg Ogden) I was inspired to write on another topic.

What is Truth? This question was asked by Pontius Pilot (John 18:38). Relativism is overwhelmingly prevalent in our society. In fact, a recent Barna poll revealed that as many as 67% of Americans believe that there is NO such thing as absolute truth. People want to believe that it doesn’t matter what they believe as long as it makes them feel good and doesn’t step on anyone else’s toes. They say “look – if you found something that makes you happy, then great – but don’t tell me about it.” The danger of not believing in truth is that it prevents people from even searching for it. The fact of the matter is, we live our lives every day acting on beliefs we hold to be absolutely true! In courts of law lawyers’ present evidence to help judge and jury decide what the truth of the matter is. If someone strikes our parked vehicle we certainly want the police officer to side with truth and declare us innocent.

Truth is what is “really real”. We can believe something all we want – but believing something neither makes it fact or fiction. When I was a small child, I believed that I could see Germany when I looked inside a flashlight. Sadly, I was mistaken. I grew up and I learned that Germany was actually across the ocean. What if I chose to continue to believe that Germany lay at the bottom of that flashlight? People would consider me a fool! Well, Psalm 14:1 says “The Fool says in his own heart – There is no God”.

I often wonder why it is that people will adamantly deny the existence if God, yet expect people and society to work on the premise or Absolute right and wrong. Now, if there is no absolute truth, then there is no basis for deciding what is right and what is wrong. We would each get to decide what was right or wrong for ourselves. That would mean that as long as it is “good for me” – I can rob, murder or steal. Let me tell you – this doesn’t work. Every man for himself means every man BY himself. The fact that we even believe that there is right and wrong doesn’t whisper but SHOUTS that there is a GOD.

I challenge you to seek the truth. Luke 11:9 says “And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” Furthermore, Jeremiah 29:13 says “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”