Does Truth Exist?
“What is truth?” retorted Pilate.
With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no
basis for a charge against him. John 18:38 (NIV)
The last couple of days all Malayalam News
channel had only one news to show. Debates and talks for more than 48 hours
about just one thing – the Solar Scam. An excerpt of the news that came in the
Tehelka online magazine : With the LDF in Kerala baying for his resignation on
the solar panel scam, a defiant Chief Minister Oommen Chandy rejected their
demand, saying it was part of a political conspiracy by the CPI-M-led
opposition and if he stepped down now, he would be doing an “injustice to
truth.”
“I am not a person who wants to cling
to power at any cost. But, if I resign now, I will be doing injustice to
truth,” Chandy, in the eye of a storm triggered by the scam, told reporters
after a cabinet meeting here today.
People are eagerly waiting for the truth
to be revealed. But we also need to understand that today truth has become one
of the world’s most endangered species. Truth has been manipulated and
mistreated, despised and distorted. However, one thing is for certain: no
matter how people may treat truth, they will never succeed in its destruction.
“What is truth?” Pontius Pilate asked
Jesus this famous question when the religious leaders brought Him in to stand
trial. Pilate’s question was not unique; he was not the first person to raise
the question, and he will not be the last. For centuries, mankind has been
looking for the answer to that question. The only difference is when Pilate
asked the question, he was standing face-to-face with the very answer he
sought. Jesus was sent on a mission by God to answer this question. He
declared, “For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the
world, that I should bear witness to the truth” (John 18:37). Jesus spent His
life bearing witness to the truth about God, sin, heaven and hell, love, life
and death. His entire life was a testament to the truth about all that mankind
ever needs to know.
When we come face-to-face with the truth
of Jesus Christ and the Bible, how do we respond? Do we sarcastically sneer at
the truth like Pontius Pilate? Or, do we receive Christ’s testimony about
truth? One day we all will stand face-to-face with Jesus. How we respond to His
declarations of what the truth really is will determine our eternal destiny.
Let us not choose to be indifferent like
Pontius Pilate but on the contrary accept and obey the truth given to us by God
in Christ, or be ready to accept the consequences for rejecting that truth.
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