We don’t get to define our own truth!

As a society we’ve moved to a point where many people genuinely believe that we get to determine what is right and wrong for ourselves … and no other views need to be considered.

Logic, one of the staple concepts about a debated issue, is that one side can be right, and both can be wrong. But they can’t both be right, or true. How do we determine truth in a world that says there is no standard and I get to decide what truth I follow? Much of the time it is a heart issue.

But, of course, there are some standards imposed by society. You can’t say you think it’s fine to kill someone, and therefore it’s okay to believe that and do it. We aren’t to that point yet, but you can see how over time a society could be. The concept of personal truth is not new. It’s been around in various forms for quite a while. It was originally called relativism. But truth is not relative, no matter how much we might say it is.

Here’s a very brief history of relativism. It was an outgrowth of the Enlightenment period of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, also known as the Age of Reason. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, in the late 1700s, also played a major role in getting relativism entrenched in society. It has taken root deeply in our society now after a couple of centuries of development.

You can see the corrosive effects of that belief. Doesn’t relativism sound like the kind of terrain on which satan would like to conduct spiritual warfare?  You bet it does. We are deceived from the beginning, and we want to be in control of everything—just like in the Garden of Eden. So then we have this philosophical underpinning that feeds that natural human state of being deceived to the point we can’t see how deceived we are. A lie now stands as truth. It’s insidious.

Of course, if you think this little obstacle is too big for God to overcome, you may have tiny armor.

You’re easy prey.

Talk to God honestly and ask Him to show you your heart, and where you might be wrong. He will be gracious in showing you. Psalm 139:23-24.

p. 258, 'Tiny Armor'.

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