What Defines Your Truth?
Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me (John 14:6).”
We live in a day when people think there is no absolute truth, and that all truth is relative to me and my perspective. I particularly see this among young people whose truth is based largely on how they feel, or what they think, or what the people around them think and feel. If I feel a certain way, then that is my truth. No, that is just how you feel. It isn’t necessarily true or false, it could be just how your hormones are reacting that day, or how your body chemistry is off balance, or how your brain is firing in that moment. You are making your feelings, and your thinking, your god, and they are an unreliable source of truth that sway back and forth in the wind.
Jesus said he is the truth, and since he is the Son of God who died and rose from the grave, he has the creds to validate it. All truth should be measured against his truth. If our feelings tell us something different than his truth, then our feelings are what’s off. If our minds (intelligence, learning, etc.) tell us something different than what Jesus tells us, then our thinking is off. It boils down to this, will I trust Jesus’ truth ahead of my own so called truth, my own feelings, my own thoughts? Will I submit my feelings and thoughts to his truth, or will I continue to follow my truth. The problem with following my feelings and thoughts (my truth) and acting on them, is that, if they contradict or violate Jesus’ truth, then we will experience negative consequences that won’t lead to life (after he said, he is the way and life as well). We will experience guilt, anxiety, shame, depression, rather than experience his joy, love, and peace.
What defines your truth and why? Will you trust in and submit to Jesus as the Truth, and his Word as the full expression of his Truth so he can set you free (John 8:31-23)?