A thought on truth.

 It must be awfully difficult to be a grown up deciding what is right and wrong if it wasn't clearly spelled out for you as a child.

I went on a weird date once.  This guy and I talked about every hot-button topic you can think of...including religion and politics...and we disagreed on EVERYthing, but we could converse about it.  Neither of us got all defensive.  He was trying to convince me that whatever you believe in here on earth would be your reality throughout eternity.

Isn't that the easiest thing to believe?  That if you believe in reincarnation, you will be reincarnated.  If you believe in heaven, you will go there.  He gave me the example, "If you believe in fuzzy bunny land, you will go to fuzzy bunny land!!"  And he was serious.

Too bad easy doesn't make right.

I was so tempted to consider this as reality, but then I engaged my brain and remembered that truth is not subject to our beliefs, but our beliefs should bow to truth.

I gave him the example, "You can choose to believe that the sky is green, but that belief will not change the blue sky!"

Truth is a constant.  IT does not change!!!  We change for it...or we suffer the consequences.

This is a perfect example:



IRISH: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the South, to avoid a collision.

BRITISH: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the North, to avoid a collision.

IRISH: Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.

BRITISH: This is the Captain of a British navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.

IRISH: Negative. I say again. You will have to divert YOUR course.

BRITISH: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS BRITANNIA! THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE BRITISH ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS, AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH, I SAY AGAIN, THAT IS 15 DEGREES NORTH, OR COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP.

IRISH: We are a lighthouse. Your call.

Truth isn't going to stomp and yell and insist you believe it, it will just be.  What we do about it is our call.

John 14:6

New International Version (NIV)

⁶ Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.