The Lord is awe-inspiring, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in 1 John 5:6b,
“And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.”
John tells us the Holy Spirit testifies to the truth of Jesus Christ. It is this very truth our faith rests in that John says is the “victory that overcomes the world”. It is our faith in this truth that brings about our birth by God that makes us his children.
This morning my thoughts are drawn to the sometimes-asked question, “what is truth?” Where many shy away from being so bold as to claim to having ascertained truth and living in a day where many reject the very notion that any truth can be grasped or that it even exists, (with claims of “truth is whatever you want it to be…”) John declares with the piercing brilliance of truth: the Holy Spirit is the truth!
I am sometimes astonished with the befuddled thinking of so many today as they grope for understanding the world around them. Whether the practical aspects of child-rearing, what passes today for notions of liability/responsibility in courts of law, the basis on which we elect our leaders demonstrates to me that truth couched in clarity of thinking has taken a back seat. It seems as though anyone with even a faint imagination can put forward anything and it has as much a chance at being embraced and held as accepted “truth” as anything else out there. Chakras, indulgences for “carbon footprint” violations, “holistic”, “organic”, the green movement, socialism, just a multitude of concepts, thoughts and ideas express the reality that truth has been abandoned in favor of something else, anything else.
In propositional truth the Scriptures, through John and Jesus Christ himself, declare that truth is not only present but available to be had by all! John tells us the Holy Spirit is truth and leads us into all truth. Jesus Christ declares that he himself is truth in one of the most intolerant statements history has recorded: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6. Truth is always intolerant as it not only defines that which is true but it also delineates that which is not.
Today I worship our God of truth. How wonderful we have a source of truth that is reliable, consistent and always provides for clarity of thought!
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your theme of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We’d love to hear from you!
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