“…Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life,.” John 6:68
In our time on Wednesday, the Millen Baptist youth are
working their way through a study on truth.
What is truth? Who decides what
is true? Is there a standard of
truth? It is an unfortunate reality that
many in this fallen world want to believe that truth is relative. People want to do, as it says in the
seventeenth chapter of Judges. “… what is right in [their] own
eyes.” As
we study, we have come to accept, to be convinced that truth resides in God
alone!
When I ponder on the fact that in God, in Christ one
finds the “only” source of truth and life I am humbled to know Him (John 14:6). I
am truly grateful to know Him and His ways.
It reminds me of a statement by Simon Peter, the brash, bold
disciple. Although Peter’s brazenness,
at times, got him in trouble, his plain language in the sixth chapter of John gets
to the heart of the matter. In verse
sixty-eight, Peter says, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words
that give eternal life.”
Brothers and sisters in Christ, the reality that our God is the
truth-giver should drive each of us to seek Him. For in Him and Him alone rest the truth that
can bring freedom to the captive... that can bring light to the darkness... the
one place that quenches the thirst of the spiritually parched... the One and Only
who brings life to the spiritually dead.
As a praise chorus says, “You can have the whole world but give me Jesus!”