A Sunday-school teacher 40 years ago told us about the "So...what ?" principle of studying. Read the Bible, he said, with the question "So...what ?" Scripture's words have immediate personal applications for our lives: ask yourself what those are.
The verse of the Bible always in the forefront of my mind is John 14:6, where Jesus proclaims He IS Himself "...The Way and The Truth and The Life." Believing He is Who He said He IS has absolute, total, implications: that in every situation of life we must follow truth, for there is no other way of following Jesus
Truth not just propositional: Truth in its fully-"Life" context, what we'd call reality. Or rather, since Jesus IS All of it, "Reality." Every unreality offers us "alternative facts" (as Donald Trump's press-secretary put it) that all things in heaven and earth are other than the way God created them: and offers us, as satan offered Eve, a different way than His.
"Truth in the innermost being" (Psalms 51:6) must pour out in all our "issues of life" (Proverbs 4:23): it is the measure Jesus set for His followers. Any who love Truth will pursue Truth, obey Truth, and live Truth in every way.
The question for the American Church today is why Truth is not every Christian's criteria in ALL things ? How can a Christian ever follow the lies of consumerism, or the empty deceit of fame and wealth, or the propaganda of the world's myriad false ideologies and "life-styles" ? How can any Christian ever follow politicians' lies...as so many do ?
Jesus is The Truth. He promised the Spirit will lead us into All Truth...if we will follow Him... and The Truth will make you free indeed.
Amen.
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