Who Is the Truth?

Jesus is the Way, the Life and the Truth. So says the Bible.

Jesus is not just a person who says things that are true. He is the embodiment of truth itself. Truth begins, resides and ends in Him.

If truth had a face, it would look like a Jewish carpenter. If truth had a voice, it would have a Galilean accent. When Pilate asked dismissively “What is truth?” more than 2000 years ago, what he didn’t know is that he was staring right at the answer.

The Truth once walked on this earth. He loved sinners, fed the hungry and healed the sick. He didn’t feed all the hungry. He didn’t heal all the sick. I will not presume to know why. But this does not change the fact that He did all these things and more.

So what does it mean for me, Cornell Ngare, to know the truth? To believe the truth? To tell the truth? It means living my life in light of the reality of Jesus Christ. To know the truth is to know Jesus, to be intimately acquainted with Him and not just to ascent to His propositions.

To believe the truth means to live my life in light of what Jesus has said about my life. That I am a sinner in need of forgiveness. That Jesus died to forgive my sin and give me new life. That I have this life if I believe in what He did and live out the story of my life that He has revealed in the scripture.

This comes at a price. A great price. Believing the truth about Jesus and what Jesus says about myself means I will have to abandon the story of my old life. All I once held dear and built my life upon will have to come tumbling down. Knowing the truth and believing the truth will cost me my life.

This is the gospel, a call to die to myself and live for the one who died to give me life. The gospel is the Truth because the gospel is about Jesus. The gospel is the Truth because the gospel reveals Jesus to me, and kills me, and gives me new life.

The gospel is the Truth. Jesus is the Truth.

The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth.

C.N.