Pontius Pilate asked the question during the trial of Jesus Christ, “What is Truth”. A number of month’s ago while relating to a friend who was a self-proclaimed agnostic, I shared with him that the reason many people don’t know what to believe, or have trouble finding the truth, is because they have not answered the question of Lordship. In other words they want to be in charge, and whatever they learn/accept needs to fit their “box” or they won’t accept it. The reason a man is “willingly ignorant” of God is because he does not want to accept the moral implications of the same, so he tosses all such unexplainable, supernatural, or spiritual phenomena in a box he can’t explain and doggedly insists there is nothing spiritual.
In the days and months since that conversation, I have become increasingly aware how few individuals are really open to humbly and simply dialogue about, and search for truth. So quickly, when an individual’s mindset on a given subject/view is challenged, he/she becomes angry. This only exposes the insecurity many times that produces such reactions. Sometimes searching for truth is a bit like drinking an egg. Once you start accepting a given item that doesn’t fit with your “curent box” it implicates other areas as well. I have found in my own walk that it is best to keep going till the whole egg is drunk down and then many times it will eliminate things that “just never made sense.” Jesus said, “And you shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
