A while back, I read
about a journalist who, after having grappled with pressures to report the
“truth”, left her position with a prominent newspaper. While I’m not quoting her word for word, she essentially
said that her editors had been asking the journalists to report the “truth” by
creating a reality that fit their image of what they believed.
In the media today, what is true or real is often hidden or distorted or thrown out if it doesn’t fit the image of how they think life should work or how they want it to work. As a result, the media goes to great lengths to create a reality that fits what it wants and values.
But the word of God
is reality. It records something that
actually happened. In addition, it is
the only narrative that consistently points to what truth really is.
“Sanctify them by
the truth, your word is truth”, Jesus said.
(John 17:17)
“I am the way and
the truth and the life. No one comes to
the Father except through me”. (John
14:6)
Truth that is really
truth is the Word of God. Reality that
is really reality is rooted in that truth.
And we didn’t create either; both have eternally existed in the Person
of Jesus Christ.
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