In search of the #Truth

Joh 8:32  "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

2Co_3:18  "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord."

The subject of truth has been an amazing exploration for me. I find that it is one of those subjects which strikes a deep chord within all of us. Many a time we hear questions like "How do I know who is telling the truth", and cries like "I just want to be told the truth". So sincere and heartfelt is man's desire (well the majority of us) for truth, that we will invest countless hours listening to others, reading, researching, scrolling through social media and the like, just to find ourselves closer to it.

We will quickly realize in a short study through the New Testament, that it would seem that the truth is 

1) A definite article

2) A personality

The subject is not "a truth", because that would suggest that it is one among many which pertain to a single thing. Whereas it in actual fact is definite. I will explain. It is not a truth that we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. (Eph 2:8) A lot goes undone when we think it is one of the truths about how a man is saved. It is then that our faith becomes fluid and almost frivolous, for then anyone can lay claim to salvation through any other means. I trust that that illustrates my point above. So the truth is definite, that means that it is clearly defined and operates as intended.

One of the most powerful descriptions of the Bible that I have ever heard to date goes as follows;

"Everything in the Bible is truthfully stated, however not everything is a statement of truth"-Jesse Duplantis

I believe that is why Paul in writing to Timothy said "rightly dividing the Word of Truth" 2 Tim 2:15. There are things that are truthfully stated indeed, and occurrences that many have made templates for living, however they are in themselves not statements of truth. That is to say they are not the reality of life as God intended it for man. So we are best served by correlating whatever we have with other instances in the Bible.

And then we have the truth being expressed and identified as a personality. 

Joh 14:6  "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

So now above the truth being definite, it (He) is now alive and tangible with character and traits that we can interact with. Although I am in awe of the power of the definiteness in truth, I am more in love with the person of truth. I have grown to realize that one of the challenges we face in search of truth, is that we get it in part. In the scripture above in Corinthians, Paul makes it clear that we are changed from glory to glory, as we behold. How I wish we could behold all at once the entirety of the picture and be transformed without further effort, but alas it is a journey. And in encountering the truth it is possible to hold the definiteness of it in arrogance, and neglect the personality in it.

1 Cor 13:2 tells us plainly that what we know is nothing save for the part of it that is driven by love. That is the personality of truth. The truth has a character that forgives (Matt18), the truth is patient (Matt19:14)...and so much more. In Christ we find the beauty, the power and the infallibility of truth for he not only said it well, He demonstrated it and he never failed.

For all the truth seekers out there...when you find Jesus, you have found the person of truth. All else will begin to fall into place after that.

Yours in His Service,


George Mwamlowe