What Is Truth?

What is Truth? Of all the response that we have gotten to this blog over the past 5 years, the greatest response has been to the subject of Truth. There is a yearning within the soul of man to ascertain the Truth! What is the Truth about God, about creation, about the individual self? How do we fit into the greater plan for the human race? If we are to understand and accept our role in this quest, we must be able to discern Truth?

Just because we accept a particular belief system doesn’t mean that we have embraced Truth. In these last days, it is imperative that we recognize the Truth as taught and illustrated by the Word of God as revealed by the Holy Spirit. We want so badly to believe that what we know and understand about God and His Kingdom is truth. But what is Truth?

God is Truth! John 14:6, “Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. 7 If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him." In this passage, I think Jesus was saying to his hearers, “if you truly knew the Father, you would know me.” If they had recognized the Messiah in the writings of the Prophets, they would have embraced Jesus as the Messiah. Their knowledge of the Scripture could not provide the revelation of Messiah without a receptive heart and submission to the work of the Holy Spirit. Their choice was to continue in the collective traditions that generations of legalistic thinking had added to the Law of God. The “schoolmaster” became their jailer in the prison they had created for themselves!

However, God did not intend for it to be that way! The Law of God was to lead to the revelation of Jesus Christ as the Messiah. Understanding illuminated by the Holy Spirit received in faith would bring revelation. Galatians 3:23, “But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.” The Law of God was to bring them to Christ, “that we might be justified by faith.” 

In many ways our religious world is a reflection of this legalistic approach to knowing and serving God. We cannot know God without knowing Christ! We cannot know Christ without our understanding being illuminated by the Holy Spirit and being mixed with faith receive the revelation that He is our Messiah, our Redeemer, our Savior. And there is the beginning of the Truth process. It begins and continues in Jesus Christ! (continued)