Truth

Truth seems to be a hot topic lately. You could even say there are wars being fought over truth.

I just have to wonder, though, if truth is truth--if truth is absolute and unchangeable--does it really need us to wage a war over it?

What I mean is... it just seems to me that the real point about truth is not that it needs to be defended (as if somehow a lie might make the truth less true). The real point about truth is it must be lived out.

You see when truth is only a point--an idea, a concept, a proposition--to be defended, debated, and dissected... it's dead.

And truth is not dead.

Truth that is lived out is alive. It engages people. It engages culture. And it transforms.

That's because truth is bigger than our idea of truth. Truth is bigger than anything we can say about truth. Truth is bigger than any list we can make. As a matter of fact, truth has no bounds. It cannot be contained. Truth is infinite, because God is infinite. How do you defend that? How do you debate that?

All you can do is encounter it... experience it... let it change you.

I don't know. I just wonder when we'll learn how to get out of the way and let God be God, let truth be truth, and simply humble ourselves before the God who is all truth and let the infinite invade and infect the finite, transforming it into something amazing.

Somehow I think that's what the Kingdom of God is all about.