Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Yesterday I said the truth was more complicated. It is complicated because so many have an opinion about what is true. Some will say there is no absolute truth and if you are of that opinion then the truth eludes you.
What Jesus said is true. We cannot know truth without the Father revealing it to us. Jesus is the truth. To know Him is to know truth, all else is just opinion.
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
We study the Word and the Word brings us truth and it sanctifies us, setting us apart from the lies we once believed. As individuals we were bound by different lies and as individuals we hear what is needed to set us free. Our experiences are different, our needs are different and as we know that truth it differs because we are different. We do not see the whole truth, only that which we have been shown.
It is my opinion that I only know what I know because God revealed that to me out of my need and how that can be used to serve Him. I do not need to know everything to serve God.
But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.
Paul said that but not all men have renounced underhanded ways of tampering with God’s word. They favor their own opinions rather than patiently waiting on God to reveal the truth that is needed.
Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.
We do love a good mystery don’t we! Seeking the unknown is not seeking the truth, Jesus.