Today, many in the world have latched on to the phrase “personal truth.” When I hear someone say, this is my truth, or for me, this is what’s true.
It immediately takes me to Pilate’s response to Jesus in the book of John in which Jesus says,
John 18:37 “For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”
Pilate responds:
John 18:38 Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no fault in Him at all.
What is truth? Even Pilate said it 2000 years ago, and many in the world are still saying this today!
So often people are not guided by fundamental standards or if they begin with them, freely choose to step outside of those boundaries; producing an attitude and lifestyle of “whatever I want to do is okay, acceptable and all that matters. “It’s my personal truth.”
Certainly, each of us must come to make the decisions in our life based on what we believe to be true, but however we go about it, we are all ultimately responsible to what the TRUTH is.
Because of this, there must be something given to the human race by which TRUTH is defined.
Whether or not it fits into someone’s worldview, there is a God who declares His WORD is truth.
John 17:17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your WORD is truth.
The Bible says, “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” (John 1:14)
Therefore, a good place to start is with Jesus.
Jesus gives us the truth! What truth?
The truth about who God is: His nature, character and will.
The truth about who we are: our position in Christ and our identity as children of God
The truth about the kind of life we are purposed to live.
So while the world says it is okay to do whatever is “right” for you, if we don’t know the truth, we will have a skewed understanding of who God is, who we are and our circumstances.
When we violate TRUTH, we step out of the boundaries of the life we were meant to live; and in doing so live a careless life that hurts us and those around us.