Post modernism has taught us to be a culture that wants our own truth. We love the idea of our truth, but the truth is, we are not lovers of truth. If we loved the truth we would hear truth when it was spoken to us. We love our opinions, we love our ideas, we love our way of doing things, but we don’t really love truth.

Yesterday I spoke about the phrase, love is love, and we dissected what that really means. We determined that love is personal responsibility and personal accountability, love is not legalistic and love is not liberal. Now today, I would like to add, truth is not truth. If everyone of us has our own truth, of if we truly loved truth, when we heard truth we would welcome it, adjust our lives to it. Opinions are not truth.

Reading John 18 today, verse 37 jumped off the page at me, “Jesus answered, You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” Jesus was having a talk with Pilate, the governor of Judea at the time. This conversation was all about truth, to the point where Pilate asked the question, “What is truth?”

What struck me in this dialogue was that Jesus said, I have been born and for this I have come into the world, TO TESTIFY TO THE TRUTH. He continues by saying, everyone who is of the truth, hears my voice. This would have been shocking to them for the religous leaders were experts in what they thought was truth, but they could not hear the truth about Jesus or the kingdom of God.

When we love truth, when we speak truth to ourselves, we can hear the truth coming through other people who are speaking the truth to us. It all starts with us loving truth, but not just any truth, the truth about Jesus Christ, the truth as it is stated in the Bible and then truth allows us to hear the voice of God as it comes through others and comes to us personally. Truth is powerful, may we all be loves of God, who is the way, the truth and the life.