Our times are filled with groaning for change – yet, what change are people actually looking for and expecting? Everywhere we look today we see signs of turbulence within our country (as well as globally). Whether it is in the economic, financial, social, religious, educational or political arenas we are seeing times of stress, filled with hostilities and strong-armed agendas, fighting and power seeking – the enemy’s game plan continually unfolding before our very eyes!
And as we proceed through these unsettling times might we consider Pilate’s inquiry as he asked Jesus this foundational question ‘what is truth’!
Truth, as the world defines it, has become a relative matter based upon situational ethics, ‘expert’ opinions, individual circumstances and even personal beliefs (better: preferences). Yet, as this world of ours continues to languish in a lost and dying condition, it is only the TRUTH that will set people free and bring liberty to the captives – that is genuine, life-changing change! The truth is that sin is real and because of it man has been separated from his Creator and lives incomplete and unfulfilled lives that need change.
As long as we continue to follow the road that we are currently on, basing our actions upon man’s incomplete and flawed wisdom, we will continue the slide down the slippery slope that leads to ruin and ‘change’ that never fulfills.
But there is another road and that is the good news! And that road has its foundation rooted in the TRUTH. Although I must confess that this road is narrow and few find it and follow it. By faith through grace in the One who is the TRUTH we are able to follow the road whose foundation is truth, the narrow road that brings true wisdom, the way that leads to freedom and liberty – the road to an abundant life – real change!
So, you want real change, one must first begin with ‘what is truth’?
And as we proceed through these unsettling times might we consider Pilate’s inquiry as he asked Jesus this foundational question ‘what is truth’!
Truth, as the world defines it, has become a relative matter based upon situational ethics, ‘expert’ opinions, individual circumstances and even personal beliefs (better: preferences). Yet, as this world of ours continues to languish in a lost and dying condition, it is only the TRUTH that will set people free and bring liberty to the captives – that is genuine, life-changing change! The truth is that sin is real and because of it man has been separated from his Creator and lives incomplete and unfulfilled lives that need change.
As long as we continue to follow the road that we are currently on, basing our actions upon man’s incomplete and flawed wisdom, we will continue the slide down the slippery slope that leads to ruin and ‘change’ that never fulfills.
But there is another road and that is the good news! And that road has its foundation rooted in the TRUTH. Although I must confess that this road is narrow and few find it and follow it. By faith through grace in the One who is the TRUTH we are able to follow the road whose foundation is truth, the narrow road that brings true wisdom, the way that leads to freedom and liberty – the road to an abundant life – real change!
So, you want real change, one must first begin with ‘what is truth’?
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