From yesterday's devotional titled, "An Insatiable Hunger For God", I am reminded that I must first desire to seek the truth.  The absolute truth, in a relative world where nothing is absolute, according to many.  It begs the question: "If nothing is absolute, can you be absolutely sure?"

God made me.  The Bible tells me I am Christ's workmanship, created for good works.  To do good works, I need a standard to tell me what is actually good and what is not good.  Then, I must take that standard and adopt it as my own standard to hold and wave high.  In my waving of this standard, it will be either good or bad, depending on if I truly believe it or not.

As God made me, God desires truth in my inward parts.  If I have truth in my inward parts, my hidden part, then God will make me to know wisdom.  It is then that God will hide me, deliver me, cover me, and be a shield and buckler for me.  When I get out from under this covering of God, I am in enemy territory, and my enemy will deceive me into thinking something other than the truth.  I will have listened to a lie.

Truth will set us free, if we will trust God.  Trusting our own feelings, our own fleshly desires, and acting on these feelings and desires, is listening to a lie that has been perpetuated since the devil asked Eve the question:  "Hath God said...?"  When this question is asked us, we will either rebuke it immediately or let it sink in slowly like oil on the ground.  Eventually, it destroys that river of life deep within the heart.

Jesus stood before Pilate in the palace after He was arrested.  Jesus answered a question from Pilate by saying, "For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth.  Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice."  

Pilate responded with, "What is truth?"  Pilate had heard the whisper from Satan, "Hath God said...?"  With the truth standing right before him, Pilate could not see it.  Pilate had questioned God and His authority.

My friends, seeking truth is not always a fun thing to do.  Once you find the truth about something, you must act.  Obey this truth and you will flourish, even though it will take every bit of strength you have.  Disobey this truth?  Oh, believe me, it will be easy for the moment, but, in the end, you will be so confused and miserable you will wish you had never questioned God in the first place.

Truth?  It will set you free.  Seek it.  And, though you may fall seven times, never, never, never give up! 

References:  Ephesians 2:10; Psalm 51:6; Psalm 91; John 10:10; John 8:32; John 14:6; John 18:37-38