Thought for May 5

 History:

  • 1778: Washington appoints von Steuben Inspector General of the Continental Army
  • 1816: American Bible Society organized
  • 1847: American Medical Society organized
  • 1891: Carnegie Hall opens
  • 1904: Cy Young pitches first perfect game in modern baseball
  • 1912: "Pravda" begins publishing
  • 1921: Coco Chanel releases Chanel No. 5
  • 1943: Postal Zone system invented
  • 1947: Robert Penn Warren wins Pulitzer for "All the King's Men"
  • 1961: Alan Shepard is 1st American in space
  • 1973: Secretariat wins Kentucky Derby in fastest time ever
  • Born: Karl Marx, John Stetson, Chief Bender [only American Indian in the Baseball HOF], Ann B Davis [Alice on the Brady Bunch], Tammy Wynette, Adele
  • Died: Napoleon, Elise Mitchell and 5 Sunday School students [only people killed on US soil by Japanese during WWII--fire balloon], Dana Wynter
Thought:
Yesterday we looked at Jesus' prayer that we be sanctified in truth. In John 18: 38, Pilate asks Jesus, "What is truth?" Today, you will meet people who are asking this question. Today, at some point you will be asking, what is truth. We have fact checkers, truth police, and an entire industry trying to convince you and me that something is the truth. Advertisers, public relations firms, politicians and others tryto tell you that this is the truth. 

But most of the time what is presented as truth is mere opinion, a "good" theory, an unproven assertion. So we hear people say they have their own truth, their own reality. Absolutes are discarded, everyone can decide what is true. The result--no solid ground, no rock to build on, no unchanging rules. And society fails, nations fall. 

And when we assert that the Bible is true, unchanging, perfect, inerrant, people scoff, belittle, joke and laugh. 

Jesus tells Pilate that He came into the world to bear witness of the truth and that those of the truth hear His voice [18:37]. This seems so simple. Jesus says that He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. He has an exclusive claim on the truth and is that Truth. In the garden, Satan asks, "did God really say," and "you won't surely die." God is not telling you the truth, or perhaps God is not telling you the whole truth. The battle was set between the Truth and the father of lies. That has not changed--today the question is what is the truth--about God, about man, about sin, about purpose, about the future, about hope. There is only one source for the truth--the Truth is Jesus. 

Jesus said that we will know the Truth and the Truth will set us free. Now we carry the message--He is the truth and will set you free. Today we will hear a lot of lies, many half-truths, much exaggeration, some deception. Perhaps if we live like we know the Truth, the deceptions and lies of Satan can be exposed. Lord, help us be speakers of truth, livers of truth and proclaimers of truth. The world needs to know who is the truth.

Blessings
Larry

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