What is real? How do you define real? If you’re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
- “conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been, or shall be.”
- Ourselves
- Our G_d
- Our Family and Friends
And once we walk into the light of truth, we need to stay there
- For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God. John 3:20,21
And again, truth requires accepting G_d’s standard for truth and knowing the sufficiency of Scripture to enforce truth in our lives.
- The entirety of Your word is truth, And every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever. Psalm 119:160
- All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16,17
At first, this all seems so stuffy and confining. But, when we really think about it, we begin to see and feel all the good things about truth. Here is one example: gravity. Gravity is “on.” Gravity does not go “off.” Gravity works all the time, and even though it is the weakest of forces, it alone is the force that crushes large stars (and even clusters of galaxies) into tiny black holes.
Truth is like gravity. Truth seems to be weak at first, but it always wins out. Always. Run that statement through Scripture, through the history books, and through our own lives. Truth always wins. If it hasn’t won yet in some area, we even still know that truth’s victory is assured.
How do we handle gravity? We align ourselves with the fact that it exists. We live, move, build, and be counting on gravity working as it is. How then should we handle truth? Might i be so simple as to say: Just like gravity.
G_d’s truth is like gravity, only more constant.
- The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever. Isaiah 40:8
