TRUTH: what the world needs - Week 4 (Monday Morning Devotions)
As we welcome in a new year, let us focus on God’s Word and HIS TRUTH, dedicating this year to the Lord.
What the world needs now - is not love, in my humble opinion, but Truth. Truth with a capital 'T'. Yes, what the world needs now is Truth.
Need to start at week 1? Find it here.
I am certain that somewhere in your past you have taken a quiz or asked a question in which your response was either: True or False. In week one, I spoke of the Virgin Mary's birth of baby Jesus. So what is your answer: True or False? Did Mary, as a virgin, give birth to a son?
I am writing this on the day of the Presidential debate. I just read that the statements of the two candidates will be immediately fact-checked. The truth to their statements are not Transcendent truth, but rather transient truth in nature. I dare say there will be those who will be fact-checking the fact-checkers.
So where does one turn to for the Truth?
We turn to our Creator, His Son, and the Spirit of Truth. In other words, Transcendent Truth comes solely from one source: God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
And where does one learn what God has to say?
One turns to God's Sacred Word. We read the words of Jesus, as recorded by John, the third chapter of His Gospel. Jesus said:
He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all. He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony. Whoever receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true. For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure. The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. [John 3:31–36 (ESV)]
Jesus continues in chapter fifteen of John's Gospel:
“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. [John 15:26 (ESV)]
Jesus prayed for us - his disciples - with these words to His heavenly Father:
"I am coming to you now . . . I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world." In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.