Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:35
In court, we have witnesses swear to tell “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” In over thirty years of court room work, I don’t recall getting the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth even once. Witnesses don’t know the whole truth. They have recollections which may approximate the truth, but they don’t know it all. In our society, we are used to fudging the truth and, finally, witnesses often just lie.
Lately I have heard a lot about the truth. People want 100% of the truth. They say things like, “It is better to be divided by truth than united by error.” What does that even mean? The Christian church stands “divided by truth.” There are hundreds of denominations and sects. All of them think they have the truth. They hopefully have some truth but they can’t all have the whole truth. I pray the “truth” they have is Jesus.
The truth is God hasn’t given us all the truth, because we just can’t handle the truth. He never gives us more than we can handle and the church has proven it’s woefully unable to handle all the truth.
Jesus anticipated this problem. He told His disciples that HE IS THE TRUTH. Jesus is all we need. Nothing else is central. We won’t know all the truth until we know all of Him. In the meantime, we need to set aside our pride, our “I know best” attitudes and start loving each other. We have common ground with all those who acknowledge that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. Our mission is to reach the rest. We can’t do that as long as we won’t unite because of differences on non-essentials.
For some, the hopeless search of 100% truth in this life will keep them from experiencing the joy of fellowshipping with and loving all those who have all the truth that matters: Jesus. That’s just sad.
Be blessed.
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