Thought For The Day

Corrupting Truth

There is Truth. Then there is a corruption of Truth that sounds good when one is unfamiliar, or worse, flippant, with the Truth. Most folks have a sense regarding that which is evil and corrupt except when it comes to sound bites that corrupt genuine Truth. Hence, at least from this writer’s perspective, corruption of Truth may be more harmful than evil.

We often hear those kinds of corruptions, and they tear at our commitment to Godliness and Righteousness. A statement of a reason to avoid gathering with the Body of Christ (the Church) is one such corruption – “the Church is full of hypocrites so I avoid it.” While it is unlikely that the Church is “full,” there are usually some folks who will fit the bill, but the Truth is that we are commanded by God to “not forsake the assembly of ourselves together.” See Hebrews 10:25

I heard another statement that sounds so good, but is a corruption of Truth – “God loves us most when we love each other.”  While that sounds good, and we do have a stringent command from God to “llove one another,”  the Truth is that God lloved us with infinite llove while we were yet sinners, separated from Him and bound for eternity without Him. His llove for us is never greater than when He bestows His grace (undeserved favor) on us. And once we become part of the family of God by exercising the gift of faith He gives us to believe that He sent His Son to die in our place, that llove never lessens – even when we corrupt the Truth, or refuse to speak out when others do.

Irreparable harm is done in the lives of all mankind when we fail to be clear and accurate with the Truth. Deciding that some preferred action is acceptable doesn’t make it Truth, and the fact that something may “sound good” doesn’t make it True.

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