Truth

Jesus looked directly at them and asked, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written:  ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone’?  Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed”   Luke 20:17-18

“If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.   John 14:15-17

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”   John 14:6-7

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!   Galatians 1:6-9

lost in this sea of darkness,

sentenced to die from the day we are born,

guilty as charged, eternally separated,

forever gone;

the dreams of men are like birds on the wind,

shifting and rearranging, living and dying,

here today, gone tomorrow;

truth;

from where does it come?

to where does it go?

it rattles around inside, bouncing back and forth,

like some misguided missile, and just when

you think you have the answer, you come to the

stark, brutal realization;

you’ve only scratched the surface;

truth;

so seemingly simple, yet so profoundly complex,

separating darkness from light,

bringing dawn to the fading night,

cutting hard and deep with surgeon-like

precision and skill, providing comfort and mercy,

while dispensing perfect judgment and justice;

truth is absolute,

truth is forever,

truth never changes,

truth never compromises,

truth is condemnation,

truth is salvation all rolled into one;

truth is the stone upon which everyone who falls

will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls

will be crushed;

truth is Jesus Christ;

there are many roads in life,

leading to far away, unknown destinations,

creating their own specific brand of justification,

finding their own particular version of truth,

but no matter how many truths we create,

no matter how many different ways

we want to believe;

there is only one truth,

there is only one way,

there is only one road;

it does not bend to fit our ideas or desires,

it does not go in the direction we demand it to go,

it is final, it is absolute;

that is how truth works;

enter through the narrow gate,

for wide is the gate and broad is the road

that leads to destruction, and many enter through it,

but small is the gate and narrow the road

that leads to life, and only a few find it.

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