My first Blog

Do you want to know truth? I do. The purpose of this blog is for sharing and comparing notes. Thank you for taking the time to read this blog. I love interaction of thoughts. Pilate asked Jesus a very pertinent question for his day and for ours, “What is truth?” But then he walked away, as if to say, “There is no such thing.” All the education and training he had had in Roman law and sociology left him a complete unbeliever in something more than situational ethics, a cynic of absolute truth. His private interview with Jesus should have given him an inkling that there was something true, and that this remarkable Person could have some answers.

Absolute truth to many seems a ridiculous notion! Not worth the time of day! “You must be an idiot.” “How gullible can a person get?”, they say or at least think. But really its not so difficult to imagine. If we put on our thinking caps, and boil life down to its basic concepts and priorities, then we have the core of absolute truth. There is a fundamental principle in life that everyone and everything must follow. If we find that principle, then we have our course set, and life soon becomes full of exploration and adventure, fellowship and satisfaction. So once we have the basic principle, then comes the task of branching off from there into all the different and varied categories of nature and life experiences. We can search out underlying motives and expose hidden intents that are only cover-ups. And then, Voila! We have a good handle on truth! It's not so impossible after all to know absolute truth! I don't have all the answers, but if we put our hearts and heads together, we can make some pretty good progress.

First, let me say that in our search for truth, there is no truth apart from the sole source of truth, our Creator. We are but a dust speck in His vast creation. “Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?” Is. 2:22. “When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and stars which Thou hast ordained, what is man, that Thou art mindful of him?” Ps. 8:3, 4.

Since we are but a dust speck, and the great Creator is so mindful of us, we should avail ourselves of Him. “The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the Holy is understanding.” Prov. 9:10. There is no truth apart from the holy God. When we separate holiness from knowledge or wisdom, we enter Satan's ground. “God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” Gen. 3:5. Satan loves to offer the prospects of wisdom and knowledge deep and unsurpassed, curiosity satisfied, and our personal recognition to go with it. But it all ends being ensnared by the devil, taken captive by him at his will.

“This is life eternal, that they might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent.” Jn 17:3. To know Jesus is to know God. Spiritualism often refers to God as the end all of wisdom and truth. Yet spiritualism and the new age Hinduism never point their adherents to Jesus, “who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.” 1Cor. 1:30. One thing I know, Jesus, the lowly One, is very high and exalted because He went so low. He is greatest because He became the very least. It is this concept that forms the foundation of truth. The cross, the mighty demonstration of self-sacrifice, is the essence of wisdom. Not until we know the cross experience can we ever enter into life, learning all that is possible to learn. And “the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.” Is. 11:9.