What Is Truth?

What is Truth? Of all the responses that we have gotten to this blog, 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. 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." And in God is no variability. “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning,” James 1:17. If we want to know Truth, we must know God in an intimate, personal relationship. So intimate and personal that we recognize the voice of God as He speaks His Truth into our lives.

The Truth of God is constant but our understanding continues to change. Therefore our understanding Truth is dependent upon our growing unto Him. Eph. 2:10, “And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; 21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: 22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.” Our concept of Truth is directly related to our genuine love for God and our obedience to Him. We cannot walk in rebellion and experience His Truth. However, as we move progressively toward Him in a more complete revelation of who He is, the Truth will be apparent because God is Truth. God doesn’t change, the Truth doesn't change, only our understanding of it.

In an effort to convince others that what we believe is Truth, we fall into Satan's trap and become ambassadors of a carnal doctrine espoused by the flesh. A man delivers the message but God gives the revelation and will validate His message. Since we cannot understand God with the carnal mind, we must rely upon His revelation and validation by the Holy Spirit. Is it Truth because we believe or do we believe because it is Truth? The obvious answer is that we believe because it is Truth and God has brought us into it.

John 8:28, “Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. 29And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him. 30As he spake these words, many believed on him. 31Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.