The Choice Lives On

To me, archeology is fascinating. When I see photos of ancient finds, I know what Solomon said was true: “What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9).  

We have another thing in common with the ancients: The question of truth. Jesus answered Pilate’s questions, but when He said He was born to testify to the truth, and “everyone who belongs to the truth listens to My voice,” Pilate cut Him off with a satirical response. “What is truth?” (John 18:33-39).

The truth is not necessarily complicated. Even a simple plumb line of string with a weight at the bottom will help someone build a straight wall.

We live in a day when people seem bent on living by personal truth, meaning “your truth and my truth” are both right, different though they may be.

Like Solomon said, “There’s nothing new under the sun.” Isaiah 59:14-15 reads like today’s news: So, justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter. Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil becomes prey.

We have a moral and spiritual plumbline: Jesus and God’s Word (John 14:6, 17:17). But from Genesis to Revelation, God has always given us freedom of choice. We are free to believe or not. We are free to:

·         Exchange God’s truth for a lie (Rom. 1:25)

·         Wander away from the truth (2 Timothy 2:15-18)

·         Oppose the truth (2 Timothy 3:8)

·         Deceive ourselves with no truth in us (1 John 1:8)

 

But God’s truth has eternal consequences. John 3:16-18 says God loved the world so much that He sent His Son, Jesus, as the one-and-only acceptable sacrifice for sin. We can choose to accept Jesus as our Savior and have eternal life, or choose not to believe and be condemned eternally. 

It’s just a matter of time. Whose truth do you choose to live by? Your truth, my truth, or God’s truth?

 

Choose carefully, because one day we will all appear before Christ. Why? To be judged for our choices here on earth (2 Corinthians 5:10).

 

Pixabay: Pharoah, Archeology; fotshot.