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.
John 14:6 6Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the
life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Many of us chart our daily steps and
hours of sleep. What if we charted the amount of time reading, studying,
memorizing 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.
