Where does the concept of “truth” come from? Is there such a thing as “absolute truth?” Progressive thought argues that truth is relative—there is “my truth” and “your truth” and “their truth”. The various “truths” inevitably struggle for dominance and the question becomes, whose “truth” will prevail? What will the world look like when it does?
About 2,000 years ago, a governor with all the weight of the Roman Empire behind him was about to pass sentence on a condemned man and asked him, “What is truth?”
Most people on planet earth still don’t have the answer because they refuse to recognize it. Notice that the confused governor did not ask, “What is true?” That’s an entirely different question. Either by accident or design the man identified a foundational principle: if we know what Truth is, we will always know what is true, or not true.
The Roman was very close to the answer but missed it: Truth was standing in front of him! Truth that transcends all opinion, all prejudice, and all preference, and cannot be molded to suit the moment was right there, staring at him, but the implication was too great to bear, and the governor turned away before the condemned man could reply.
Truth is not whatever we think it is or want it to be. Truth is the one fact that gives meaning to all other facts. Truth has a name: Jesus Christ.
He is God’s active Word, God in human form, Truth and Life in human form. The radical declaration in John 14:6 has implications so profound that it cannot be debated; it can only be absolutely rejected or totally believed. It is one thing or the other: a stunning revelation about a Creator who loves His Creation and has made Himself accessible in it, and to it, or it is a huge, cruel hoax.
This is Truth: Jesus Christ is God in receivable form. At this Easter Season, if you know the Truth affirmed by the Resurrection, you have access to eternal life and everything else God offers. If you don’t, you have nothing.