CONTENDING FOR THE TRUTH

Here’s something worth remembering

The truth is the truth.

I know it sounds obvious but it’s something that these days sometimes gets forgotten.

Because you can conceal the truth, suppress the truth, or deny the truth. But you cannot create the truth.

Neither can you change it.

The truth is not dependent on what we think. Neither is it what is necessarily popular, or convenient.

Because the truth is what it is.

Never varying, the truth remains stubbornly the same.

Even so, there are those who are blind to the truth.

There are those, including some in power, who wouldn’t recognise the truth if it was stood there right in front of them.

Like Pontius Pilate for example.

Who asked ‘What is truth?’ of the one who was, and is the truth [John 18:38], and discovered that those who try to kill the truth, find that it refuses to stay dead.

Because the truth can’t be silenced.

The truth is forever.

Contend then for the truth – the glorious truth, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners [1 Timothy 1:15].

That He is the way, and the truth and the life. And that no one comes to the Father except through him John 14:6].


Related posts:

To read ‘In loving memory of the truth’, click here.

To read ‘Hope or Despair’, click here

To read ‘More Severed Thinking’, click here

To read ‘What becomes of the broken hearted? Sorrowful yet always rejoicing on Palm Sunday’, click here

To read ‘Why do bad things happen to good people? Sorrowful yet always rejoicing on Good Friday’, click here

To read ‘Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things? Rejoicing, though temporarily sorrowful, on Easter Day’, click here.

To read ‘Ascension Day’, click here.

To read ‘Speaking in Tongues’, click here.

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Author: Peteaird

Nothing particularly interesting to say about myself other than after 27 years working as a GP, I was delighted, at the start of December 2023, to start work as the South West Regional Representative of the Slavic Gospel Association (SGA). You can read about what they do at sga.org.uk. I am also an avid Somerset County Cricket Club supporter and a poor example of a Christian who likes to put finger to keyboard from time to time and who is foolish enough to think that someone out there might be interested enough to read what I've written. Some of these blogs have grown over time and some portions of earlier blogs reappear in slightly different forms in later blogs. I apologise for the repetition. If you are involved in a church in the southwest of England and would like to hear more of SGA’s work, do get in touch. I’d love to come and talk a little, or even a lot, about what they get up to!.

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