The Truth is…

I was talking to a friend the other day and we were discussing the breakdown of truth.  For any particular truth you feel like you have before you about any issue in this world, someone else could easily have any vast variety of differing accounts.  I am reminded of Pilate at the trial of Jesus asking “What is Truth” in John 18:39. Relativism is unmooring and complete uncertainty is worrisome at the least.  Earlier in John’s Gospel Jesus is trying to comfort his friends and let them know that he will go before them to prepare a place for them and Thomas says “Lord, we do not know where you are going.  How can we know the way?”  This is the famous passage where Jesus says “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”  There is a reason this is the claim carved into most crosses you will find at Camp Allen.  This is a proclamation of certainty, maybe the only true certainty that we will ever hear.  Jesus is our way.  He is our life.  Jesus is truth.

While this passage has at times been misinterpreted over and against others, it is in fact meant to be spoken to us who are blown about by the winds of this world. As I talked to another colleague, we named that as we are making plans, we are aware that for the last five months plans have often had to change daily if not more often. We are certainly living in a moment of immense uncertainty. But there is a truth that is constant, Jesus loves us and has done all things necessary to go before us and prepare a place for us.  While we can’t attend worship in person, I pray that the constancy of Jesus’s love for you will be known and you will physically rejoin us to celebrate this Good News when we are able to do so safely (which is hopefully soon). That said, God’s love for you is no less real than it has ever been and the steady assuredness of the truth of God’s love made known in Jesus Christ will never be relative, wavering, or untrue.  I know that certainty in an unseen truth can by tricky if not difficult, but we have a God that has assured us that all things will be well. 

In this period of great change, know that our faith is build upon the steady rock of God’s love and nothing can overcome that truth.

We love you and God loves you.