Truth

Sometimes I make life so complicated. 

Here’s why: my adherence to Absolute Truth inclines me to apply this principal to each circumstance. 

I have realized lately that I am always trying to figure out what is right in a given situation.  What is the true thing to do?  What decision could I make here that would be wrong?  I could agonize over thoughts like this all day.

Surely, there are choices that are more beneficial than others.  Some level of wisdom or discernment may lead me to go here rather than there, or choose this over that.  But if I’m looking for an absolute truth in a scenario, I’m not likely to find it.

Here’s why: “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.” (Isaiah 40:8)

The only thing that is really true is the word of God!—all else passes away.  And so when I’m faced with a situation where I don’t know what to do, my aim is not to seek and stand on the truth in that circumstance; my aim is to stand firmly on what I know to be true, and usually these truths have absolutely nothing to do with whatever I’m facing.  If God’s revealed Word does not have something specific to say about the situation I’m in, then I can stop looking for the truth that applies to that circumstance and should focus on what God has already said:

God so loved (and loves) us.

He sent His son.  To die.  For me.

And now He lives.  With me.

This truth is what allows me to navigate any situation, knowing that nothing I face will ever have any effect on what’s really true.

How much easier this makes things!  Each decision seems more effortless and incredibly less significant when I focus simply on the truth that stands alone.

I am hungry to know God’s word, the truth that is and sets me free.