because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! amen. – [romans 1:25]
cling tightly to what is true
what is truth? can you answer? do you know?
this is the exact question that pontius pilate asked Jesus (john 18:38), and it is the exact question we all still seek to answer today.
what is truth?
can there be more than one? can we choose our own truth, one that ‘works for us’?
in a society filled with propaganda, doubt, and deception, many are left asking, and never really knowing.
thankfully, the answer is simple, obvious, and paul clearly articulates it in romans 1: there is one God who created everything and reigns eternal, Jesus is the risen savior, and we choose to follow Him into eternal life or suffer the emptiness and judgement of life without Him.
life or death.
joy or judgment.
He IS truth! He deserves our worship, and this has been proven true time and time again throughout the millennia.
so why do we try to worship created things instead?
why do we ignore what is so clearly evident in creation?
the air we breathe, stars in the sky, hearts that beat rhythmically throughout a lifetime, eyes that see, minds that reason, and ears that hear are all basic evidence that God loves us and is worthy of our worship.
yet we seek truth elsewhere. what good do we think it will do to worship something created? why do we cling to what we know are lies?
what is truth?
this is the first deception the led humanity to sin and judgment in the first place.
recorded in genesis 3 is the first moment of doubting truth. satan’s approach was to question the truth of God by asking, “did God actually say…?”
adam and eve then questioned the truth of what God said.
they then acted in opposition to what God said.
they doubted, then they fell.
what do we worship other than God? where do our time, treasure and talent go that is not honoring Him? what is a lie we believe? how can we weed out anything that is not beautiful, not Godly, not true?
there is nothing more beautiful, liberating, and reassuring than truth.
again, Jesus doesn’t just give us the truth – He IS the truth!
truth is not a thing to memorize, it is a person to worship, a savior to love and proclaim.
~ jason soroski