Fight

Are you fighting for the truth or are you compromising?  One of the things that is evident today is that many people do not want to hear the truth.  This is what makes it easier for preachers to compromise and water down sermons, and also for shysters to sell you something you don’t want or need.  It seems like giving the people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear is far more popular than truth.  If your purpose is to build a mega church you may accomplish it easier that way.

I have heard it said if you tell a lie long enough people will end up believing it especially if they didn’t know the truth in the first place.  Deception is running rampant everywhere and many have fallen into it.  The temptation to lie, steal, cheat and take advantage of others, as well as many other temptations, is always with us and we need to overcome it.  I think that one of the hardest things to overcome is deception because when people are deceived most of them do not even realize that it has happened.  Some people are such smooth talkers that it is hard to know when you have been taken in.

Pilate seemed to have a problem with truth also.  In God’s Word it says this in John 18:37-38, “Pilate therefore said to Him, ‘Are You a king then?’  Jesus answered, ‘You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.’  Pilate said to Him, ‘What is truth?’ And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, ‘I find no fault in Him at all.’”

Pilate believed what Jesus said to be the truth but chose to deny the truth like many do today.  It is a terrible thing when people don’t recognize the truth, but it is even worse when they recognize the truth but reject it and not heed it like Pilate did.  Today, like Pilate did, many people think the truth is relative.  When there is no basis for truth there is no basis for moral, right or wrong.  People not wanting to accept the truth shouldn’t surprise anyone, people have been changing the truth for a lie for many years.  It says this in Romans 1:25, “Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.”

People will believe lies if it will further their agenda or their personal beliefs.  In the world we live in today, we are bombarded with falsehoods, half-truths and downright lies from T.V., movies, magazines, radio, computers and even our government so we need to be careful who we listen to.  It is so important that we speak truth to each other no matter who we are, or who we are talking to.  We will all be held responsible if we purposely try to deceive others with half-truths or plain outright lies.  We need to stand our ground and fight for truth whenever lies are being used to distort it.  If we do, truth will always prevail in the end.  So let’s do our part, the Lord will bless us for it.  Food for thought; may the Lord bless you and yours and may you have a super day!!