Perception vs. Truth

May 23

Unseen truth is of infinitely more worth to man in an ultimate sense than is the seen perception of truth that may not be truth at all. Perhaps one of the most graphic examples of that reality is in the story of the Titanic.

Almost everyone remembers the tale of the great ship that was built to such amazing specifications that even God, as one observer stated, ‘…couldn’t sink the Titanic.’ Of course, when the magnificent ship struck an iceberg, it, and many of its passengers, went swiftly to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

A reality of life is the aging process. The evidence that this phenomenon is occurring in all humankind may be more or less noticeable in us, but it is happening to everyone. From the newborn to the centenarian, we are all wasting away as we progress through temporal life to physical death. Some may be taking longer strides than others toward that destination, but it awaits everyone sailing upon life’s tempestuous sea.

This is an unsettling thought until we read the word Paul gives us in the matter found in II Corinthians 4:16. Here the great apostle of the faith says, “Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. As long as we remain anchored to Jesus, our inner man is strengthening. The icebergs of life can’t sink us for He is far greater than any force of nature.