Is there a safe place one can turn to find the peace and safety of truth that will not change with the culture of the day or the spin of a political candidate? Any political season seems to highlight a lack of honor and a lack of truth. Truth has become a sport that is meant to be spun into whatever you want truth to be or however it can best benefit you.  The Democratic candidate says he is telling me the facts. The Republican candidate says her position is based on the facts. Yet they both can’t be right, especially when their “facts” aren’t even in the same zip code!  Our nation, better yet, our world is crying out desperately for truth.

 

Let me offer this thought. Truth that changes due to convenience is no truth at all. Truth that changes with culture or society is not truth. Real truth is forever, it will never change. Truth says there is a black and white; there is a right and wrong; there are absolutes. Real truth is a safe place we can run to to find our bearings. Truth has a name and He will never change. Jesus said that He is the way, the truth, and the life. (John 14:6) Truth that produces the hope and peace that every heart longs for can only be found in the real Truth…Jesus.

If we’re not careful, we may become like the man who prided himself on being an expert archer. The secret to his success was that after he shot his arrow at the side of a barn, he painted a bull’s-eye around the arrow.

It’s easy to live our lives doing what we want and thinking that our ways and instincts are right on target when in reality our “bull’s-eye” shots at life are not on target at all. Proverbs 14:12 says, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” If you accept the Bible as truth, it’s pretty black and white. Sometimes it may feel right to seek revenge, hoard money, chase pleasure, or yell at people who yell at us.

 

But God’s ways are different from ours. He has painted a bull’s-eye on forgiving those who have hurt us, on giving generously to those in need, on living to please Him rather than ourselves, and on turning the other cheek. We need to pray, “Teach me Your way, O Lord; I will walk in Your truth” (Ps. 86:11). And then we need to aim to follow His ways in all that we do and say.

But we all need help to aim at the right target. Thankfully, the bull’s-eye is already painted in the brushstrokes of God’s truth as revealed in His Word. When we aim our lives at God’s Word, we’ll discover that His ways are right on target—every time!