If you had a private one-on-one meeting with
Jesus what would you ask Him? What would you want explained or defined? I have
several things I would want to know and understand.
Pilate had a private one-on-one meeting with
Jesus and even asked Jesus an important theological question.
John 18:37-38 37 “You are a king, then!”
said Pilate.
Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came
into the world is to testify to the truth.
Everyone on the side of truth
listens to me.”
38 “What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this he
went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a
charge against him.
It appears Pilate was a relativist. Maybe
it was because he constantly heard different people’s perspectives on all sorts
of issues. However, he had an opportunity to hear straight from Jesus what
truth is and passed it up! How sad and foolish.
What about you and me? We get inundated
with news, people’s opinions, all kinds of statistics, and “new” research. What
information is really true? Only God’s Word is 100% trustworthy. Are you like
Pilate? Do you pass up the opportunity to hear truth directly from God? Do you
spend more time watching and reading news articles than reading truth from God’s
Word? If so, we’re just as foolish as Pilate.
Many of us chart our daily steps and
hours of sleep. What if we charted the amount of time reading, studying and applying
the Bible, versus time spent taking in information from the world? Truth is
available to us! Let’s not foolishly pass it up.
Alice
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