What is Truth?

not by power, nor by might, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts (Zach.4)

Revelation, Truth, Power of Understanding come to us not by "figuring it out," not by thinking hard, but by the Spirit of God "turning on the light" in our spirits.  And that happens only in worship, not in reasoning.  It is when we have lost ourselves in the Presence of God that understanding comes.

As long as we ourselves are the center of our thoughts and actions, we remain in the dark, dimly perceiving distant realities, but not quite reaching them -- as Plato described in his metaphor of the cave.  Isaiah says, "The whole head is sick...," so we cannot "think" ourselves into health, into truth, into spiritual understanding.  It must be given from above.

In 1 Cor. 2, Paul tells us "the natural man does not grasp the things of God, nor can he, for they are revealed by the Spirit of God, who searches the things of God..." 

But God wants us to know the "things of God," so He freely gives them to us--but only in worship.  It is when we move away from our own center and into the center of the Living God that we begin to apprehend Truth.  That is why Caesar asked Jesus, "What is truth?"   It remains to the world at large only one guess among many, only one expression of opinion among many--that is, until we bow in worship before the Creator of heaven and earth, whose gift is wisdom and truth. 

Truth is one in its essence, though varied in its expressions.  Truth cannot be divided or 'disagreed' with.  Jesus said the reason He came into the world was to bear witness to the truth.  In surrendering our own "truth" and becoming one with Him in spirit, we enter into the Truth.  There is no other way.

The eternal Truth comes Spirit to spirit----and then, and only then, to our minds.  It never works the other way around.