Flashback Friday: Whose truth?

(This is a slightly revised version of an article I wrote a few years back.)

Back in John 10:26-27, Jesus said to the Jews,

But you don’t believe because you are not of my sheep. My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me.

We see Jesus saying something similar to Pilate in chapter 18.

Everyone who is of the truth, listens to my voice. (John 18:37)

We live in a world that is becoming increasingly hostile to the truth. A world of people who, like Pilate, ask, “What is truth?”

“Your truth” has become the catchphrase of this generation.

Everyone gets to determine their own “truth” and no one has the right to contradict them.

But when Jesus prayed to the Father, he prayed,

Your word is truth. (John 17:17)

Do we believe that?

Christ’s sheep listen to his voice and follow him. If we don’t do those things, we don’t truly belong to him and the truth is not in us.

When the Bible contradicts what you believe, do you change your thinking to match God’s? Or do you try to change the Bible to match your thinking?

Can you say with Jesus, “Father, your Word is truth”?

Or are you still clinging to your own “truth”?