Here’s some insights on truth…
In our relativistic culture, “truth” is whatever you believe it to be. Tolerance is our highest value; “you have no right to force your beliefs on me” is our creed.
Nonetheless, thanks to social media, we can pretend online to be anyone we wish to be. We can speak “our truth” with little accountability or fear of judgment.
Three problems ensue.
The first is logical: To claim that there is no such thing as truth is to make a truth claim. It’s like saying, “There’s no such thing as certainty, and I’m sure of it.”
The second is relational: If we are dishonest about ourselves, we forfeit the love of others. Craig Denison notes in today’s First15: “When we work tirelessly to build up a false self so that we can receive affirmation from others, we never truly experience love. For our false self to be loved is not truly love at all because we constantly have the thought, ‘If they really knew me, they wouldn’t love me.'” People cannot truly love us until they know our true selves.
The third is spiritual: If we pretend to be someone we’re not, we forfeit the favor of God. He cannot bless what does not exist. He loves us where we are, as we are. But we must be honest with him and with ourselves to experience the transforming grace we desperately need.
Jesus gave us the antidote to our “fake news” culture: “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:31–32).
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