Whose relative is it, anyway?

                                

I suspect that I am no longer of this world. I know that I have relatives. I assume that I wasn’t brought here by aliens and left with them… though that would explain a lot! Ha ha Just kidding, my loves. But truly, from where we were decades ago to now, I am simply concerned for everyone’s mental health.

I wish I could look around at those in this world to see their reaction to certain things of this world to see if the truth of their current living conditions truly registers with them. Sometimes, I just sit stunned as if it can’t get any sadder, more broken or just completely immoral and insane. I worry. I thought that I couldn’t be any more repelled or shocked by what we accept as normal and how we live but that is just not true. It can and does always degrade more and more each day. It is a gradual degradation that seeps in like sewage and before you know it we are swimming in it. Though, I guess with sewage we would smell it coming, so that isn’t a good analogy. Though I really do like analogies. I often wonder how many of you have been completely immersed into or indoctrinated into the darkness of this world so that the truth no longer even registers.  

So here is the deal. I was watching the news, which I really don’t like to do, but should do more often just to know the state of the world that I live in. But, as I speak, I think not. I may want to be blind to it and just go about my happy little business of trying to save the world one person at a time. Any ways, I was struck by a news report that said, “Truth is relative. … They may have a different version of the truth than we do.”

Do you need me to repeat that? How many of you know what I am talking about and, when you heard it, understood the full impact of what that means? This is our new ‘normal’ in the world. Cast aside the Ozzie & Harriet truth, the Andy Griffith truth, the Brady Bunch truth and for that matter, the Bible, if you are going to believe that truth is relative, in the manner speaking.

The internet defines relativism as: “…the idea that views are relative to differences in perception and consideration. ... Truth relativism is the doctrine that there are no absolute truths, i.e., that truth is always relative to some particular frame of reference, such as a language or a culture (cultural relativism).”

I beg to differ. The only thing ‘relative’ in truth is the words used to defile it and make it false. I just have one thing to point out:

John 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Who’s relative are you? Are you of the father of lies or the Truth? Either a thing is true or it is a lie. For example, to use words to state the truth about whether I ate an apple. What if I didn’t eat the whole apple but took a bite and tossed it aside. It doesn’t really matter if I ate the whole apple or just bit into it. I either ate the apple or I didn’t eat the apple. But let us play the language of relativity.

If it was a good attorney, he wouldn’t simply ask, “Did you eat the apple?”, but let us say that he is new at his job and that is his question.

I could say: “I did not eat the apple.” In this relative way, I didn’t eat the whole apple so therefore I am relatively truthful. That is, in relation to eating the entire apple and not just a bite. However, it is still a gray area to most people and acceptable. However, it is a lie hidden behind partial truths and wrapped in relativity.

I could say: “I threw it down but didn’t eat it.” This means that I tasted the apple by taking a bite but I did not eat the whole apple.” Again, relatively, I am truthful but the same degree of mistruth is there too.

To be truthful, in the real sense of the word, I should say, “I took a bite but threw it down before eating the whole apple.” This, using the correct language and explanation, is totally truthful and Christ like.

Imagine using this mentality in regard to murder, rape, incest, adultery and the like… which, by the way, is used to justify all manner of sins in this world, using the same word play as this. Even our justice system is no longer just because it is warped into word games and insane rules instead of the value of truth. But let me caution you, what you do, what you say, is an indication of ‘whose’ you are.

Too many times there are a multitude of grays out there and we accept them, we use them and we justify them. But Lord help us if God’s truth works in the same manner. His truth is solid and trustworthy. No lies can be found in Him.

Proverbs 30:5 Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

So to be clear, there is one Truth. His. You should become accustomed with His Truth and use it as your own.

Zechariah 8:16 These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;

Proverbs 12:17 Whoever speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit.

Ephesians 4:25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

Revelation 22:14-15 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates. Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Stand strong in the Word and you won’t be drawn into the lies and deceptions of the world.