Truth = Jesus

It has been reported that over the past few months there has been a growing interest and activity in spiritual things and that people are now seeking after God more than ever. While there may be an increased interest, what many people are seeking after is not the God of truth but a god of their own thoughts and imaginations. People are seeking for comfort and strength but they want it according to their own parameters.

Many people today are being told that there are many ways to God and that it doesn't really matter what you believe as long as you are good and sincere about it. While this may sound good to those who are unwilling to face the truth, it is a teaching that will lead people to destruction.

In the book of Proverbs we are told that "there is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death" (14:12). The Word of God makes it very clear to all who will listen that there is only one way to God. If people are truly seeking after God then they will seek after the only one who can make them right with God and that i the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus, who is fully God and fully man, took our sins upon Himself at the cross of Calvary and in doing so He took the wrath of a most holy God upon Himself on our behalf. Jesus Christ said, that He was the way, the truth and the life and that no one can come to the father except through Me (John 14:6). If you would truly seek after God then you must embrace Jesus Christ as Lord.

Before Jesus was crucified He stood before Pilate and was questioned. Jesus told Pilate that He has come into the world to bear witness to the truth and that everyone who is of the truth hears His voice (John 18:37).

Pilate obviously did not understand what Jesus was saying because he immediately asked Jesus "What is truth?" Little did Pilate realize that "Truth" was standing right before him.

Some two thousand years have passed since Pilate asked that question and people continue to ask it today. Truth is not found in world religions, philosophies or sciences, truth is found in the person and divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ. And though many people today would prefer to make up their own beliefs and ways to God, the fact remains, Jesus Christ is the only way, because He is the truth and the life.

May you know the truth and more importantly may The Truth be in you.

By God's Grace ~ Through God's Word ~ For God's Glory!

Chuck Long

PS - Below is a devotional thought/prayer entitled "Truth in Jesus". It is from the book, "The Valley of Vision", published by the Banner of Truth.

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TRUTH IN JESUS

Life-giving God, quicken me to call upon Your name, for my mind is ignorant, my thoughts vagrant, my affections earthly, my heart unbelieving, and only Your Spirit can help my infirmities.

I approach You as father and friend, my portion for ever, my exceeding joy, my strength of heart.

I believe in You as the God of nature, the ordainer of providence, the sender of Jesus my Savior.

My guilty fears discourage an approach to you, but I praise You for the blessed news that Jesus reconciles You to me.

May the truth that is in him illuminate in me all that is dark, establish in me all that is wavering, comfort in me all that is wretched, accomplish in me all that is of Your goodness, and glorify in me the name of Jesus.

I pass through a vale of tears but bless You for the opening gate of glory at its end.

Enable me to realize as mine the better, heavenly country. Prepare me for every part of my pilgrimage. Uphold my steps by Your Word. Let no iniquity dominate me.

Teach me that Christ cannot be the way if I am the end, that He cannot be redeemer if I am my own savior, that there can be no true union with Him while the creature has my heart, that faith accepts Him as Redeemer and Lord or not at all.

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