Light the Path

November 11

The TRUTH is in Jesus. Jesus is the TRUTH. Anything apart from that simple assessment of the veracity of faith is contrary to TRUTH and therefore contrary to Jesus Himself. We cannot, in other words, establish our own truth. We can find TRUTH. We can lose TRUTH. We can embrace TRUTH. We can reject TRUTH.

We have no other options. In the menu of religious information that exists regarding matters of time, and more essentially matters of eternity, God has not set a smorgasbord before us. He has set absolutes before us. Oh, yes, there is a vast array of religious fallacy from which to select ones spiritual fare, but God is not responsible for misinformation.

The enemy of our souls has sought from his first encounter with man in the garden to interject error into the human perception of truth. Can we forget his words to Eve, when he tempted her to taste the forbidden fruit, "Indeed, hath God said?" (Genesis 3:1). The serpent was quite subtle; he did not call God a liar, rather, he suggested the possibility and allowed Eve to draw her own conclusion.

Man has, from that time to this, wrestled with truth, endeavored to appropriate some aspects of God's Word to himself while he has sought to pick and choose his beliefs--and often has selected tenets of faith that are not Biblical and are not TRUTH. The evil one has sown his lies within those who err. And those lies expedite their destruction—which is his intent, for he comes to “steal, kill and destroy,” John 10:10.

Ephesians 4:20, 21 points out that all which is purported to be truth is not: “That is not how you learned about the Messiah, assuming you heard Him and were taught by Him, because the TRUTH is in Jesus.” If we stray from the Lord’s own representation of Himself, we are lost in error and need the Word to help us find our way back to Him.

May we who believe be diligent in our effort to light the path of all men everywhere to the TRUTH that is JESUS.