It seems that we are at a crossroads in the ministry of what churches should look like. There are so many different messages preached across the board. One church believes one thing and another believes another thing. There is only one Author so why so many messages and so many beliefs. Has the elephant grown so big that people can’t wrap there minds around it. As a new believer what are you to believe. Who is right and who is wrong. What is the truth?
I remember going into church for the first time. As the preacher spoke I felt that he somehow knew what I was going through in my life at the time. At the end of the message, the preacher said this, “That God could have made this message just for one person in the audience.” I really believed that God spoke to me that day personally.
I raised my hand and did so again for a few weeks, just in case God didn’t see me the first time. I didn’t consider the person speaking as God, but that he was a messenger, relaying to the audience what God was telling him to say. The truth comes from God.
And yet, today it is very challenging because we must discern whose voice we are listening to, what is the true voice of God. Is the message we listen to from a man, the devil, or God. It is necessary for each one of us to learn to hear God’s voce on our own so that we can discern the voice of truth. The preacher can get it wrong, they are mortal men or women just as any other individual. Jesus can only speak the truth, He cannot lie.
John 14:6 (KJV)
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
If we cannot discern the voice of truth from a lie, how can we know what is good or evil. Can you tell what is good or what is evil? I think there would be so many definitions depending on each person and what there values are and what is going on in there heart. So what is good and what is evil? Jesus said this.
Mark 10:17–18 (KJV)
And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
We can’t understand why something is good or evil if we don’t know the truth. We can’t know the truth if we don’t know the Truth. That sounds odd. But what is TRUTH is really the question.
So how does one know what truth is. Most people would define the truth as something that is factual and correct in its entirely. So how can you tell if someone is telling the truth. There must be others who are willing to attest to the facts and that they agree that is what it is. Today we often see multiple sources speaking about a certain topic and they each tell the story exactly as though someone had scripted it and told the other witnesses that this is the truth and the facts are in fact true. But because something is coordinated doesn’t mean that is the truth. Jesus was put on the cross, though he was innocent, because of this. Evil people chose to lie and agree to a story that they did not themselves witness. Witnesses can lie! I think many people can attest to this truth that people will lie and say bad things about other people and hurt their reputation or humiliate them falsely.
If this is the case then merely having others attest to whether someone is telling the truth or something is true cannot by itself be a dictator of the truth.
TRUTH from the Bible is found in Jesus. It is a Being. It is not simply a fact. That may sound difficult to accept, because we are looking at it from our perspective and not from God’s. Everything God speaks is the truth because he can make it come to pass, he can create it if it doesn’t exist.
So if you want to know the truth, then you must know God, and you must have a relationship with Jesus.
I pray that everyone will know the Truth and work on developing a strong relationships with Jesus the Christ. Amen.