1 Corinthians 13:6b but rejoiceth in the truth;

Do you like being right? Don’t you take pleasure in knowing the truth of a matter? I know I try to be right about those things I believe. It is no fun being wrong.

Do you take pleasure in proving someone wrong? Be honest. Are you quick to correct? Do you hold your tongue and wait to see if perhaps that person misspoke and auto corrects himself? Even if they do not, do you talk to them in private about what you heard?

What if I were to tell you that this opening verse has nothing to do with what I just said?

John 14:6b I am the way, the truth, and the life:

Jesus is Truth.

Rejoice being in Christ.

What we call truth is really perception. We take what we sense and collect them into a device called a brain. Witnesses have been proven wrong in what they perceived to be a crime. Memory is a fallible commodity. Recollection is an imperfect science. Even if you study an issue or item to exhaust all possible known evidence, there is the unknown, which exists without observation.

But truth is a person, not just any person, but God Himself, infallible, perfect and pure.

To know a truth as revealed by God is wondrous, pure joy. But only for that moment, and then we store it away in that most imperfect of storage containers, the brain.

1 Corinthians 8:2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

And that’s the truth. (Jesus is the Word)