What is Truth?

Let's try red ink today. Why not? I'm feeling "saucy"!


So- I serve with a wonderful, creative group of people who basically are a worship planning committee for our contemporary service known as "Souljourn". We are called the Core Team. What we basically do is get together twice a month and brainstorm ideas about how to implement our worship service, how to help illustrate the message of the sermon, how to apply media in various ways, and just generally to help our pastor(s) in any way with regard to this particular worship service.

At our last meeting we were discussing an upcoming sermon on the topic of "Truth". Which immediately brought to my mind the scene in the NT when Christ is before Pontius Pilate and Pilate says "Truth? What is truth? Is yours the same as mine?" And therein lies the rub.....Truth. Everybody seems to have their own version of it.


This provoked a rather lively discussion. One of my team members asked our pastor, Joe, if he was going to address how difficult it is to find the truth about anything today. To which Joe responded, that the truth is not all that difficult to find if you think about it. Huh? 'Cause I was with Les on this one. So, my comment was something to the effect of, no wait a minute- truth is practically impossible to discern in the world we live in today. Think about it. We live in a world of spin. Talking heads. There is no actual "news" . It's just all lies, distortions, and thinly veiled opinions in the guise of news. I have tried endlessly to get to the bottom of so many issues only to find it absolutely impossible. Check two different sources and they often say the exact opposite of each other. Trust me on this. I have spent hours researching various issues. Now this is just an impossibility. Someone is lying or at the very least manipulating the facts to suit their ideology. Both sources cannot be true. So which one is it? Thus my point about seeking truth in a world full of deception.


Not to be deterred by a rowdy group of lay people, Joe persisted and pulled out his Bible and began reading from his text for the sermon. John Ch 1: "In him was life and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness but the darkness has not understood it"  It's really very simple, he said.  Truth is always available, but people hate the light and they don't want to see it. Therefore they hide from it.  So..... this is why HE is the pastor and we are not!  It seemed so amazingly simple when he put it like that.  He also said that as far as politics goes, both sides are misrepresenting the truth, which always lies somewhere in the middle.  Hmmm.....I can't really argue with that....

So where does this leave us truth seekers?  Not really sure but I will be looking at things a little differently in the future trying to figure out who is hiding from the light and who is not.  Looking forward to that sermon on Sept 5th for some additional clarity......will keep you posted...Shalom