Sometimes truth just doesn’t matter.

John 9


As a Pastor and a leader in the church corporate it has been my privilege to share Jesus with all kinds of people; from the powerful and wealthy to the poorest of the poor, from the intellectual to some that were “not the sharpest tool in the shed.” That is the nature of faith; God brings the right people across your path at the right time. Whether they accept faith or not is not dependent on God but on the free will of man.

I remember having a particularly lively discussion with a young man who had just finished his thesis for his doctoral program. After several hours of back and forth debate he made this statement, “You have your truth and I have mine, let’s just leave it at that!” Well of course I could not leave it at that but the long term result was that despite proof and logic he would not be convinced that God was real and he was in need of a savior. Truth didn’t matter he had his own opinion.

A blind man that everyone seems to know was blind received his sight. He had two problems, first the miracle took place on the Sabbath and second it was performed through Jesus. Can you imagine it, the man was born blind all of a sudden he is seeing things he had only dreamed about, colors and shapes sounds that he had only imagined what they might look like now he sees. An absolutely impossible event has taken place, a man who had never seen now does.

You would think everyone would be excited about the blind seeing. I believe most people were, however jealousy is an evil thing. The sad part about the religious leaders jealousy is had that not gotten jealous and embraced Jesus they could have been performing the same miracles. The disciples performed the same miracles and more than Jesus had done. Their truth was controlling this miracle for them, “we don’t care that a man was healed, we must deny it because we didn’t do it” was their sentiment. Not only did the religious leaders hurt themselves by their denial of the truth but also how many of the people chose to follow the leaders rather than Jesus and they missed out on the wonderful works of Jesus because of it.

Jesus promised when he went to the Father that He would leave us a helper. Part of the job of this “helper” would be to lead us into all truth. God is about the business of amazing us all the time if we will let Him. He still heals today. He still performs miracles. More importantly He still love us more than we will ever know. The blind man was healed because Jesus loved him and the world full of people around him, including the religious leaders. The real truth can be hidden if we allow jealousy, envy, or any sins of the flesh get in the way of what God wants for us.

I have found that there are many times when I must ask the Holy Spirit to lead me into the truth regarding things that either I don’t understand or simply frustrate me. I may not like the truth, especially when it is about correcting or discipling me, but when we walk in the truth then we are walking with Jesus. We will know the truth and the truth will make us free.

Allow the Lord to lead you into truth today. There maybe things that you have hidden from yourself or that you have chosen not to believe because it has gone against your theology. God wants us all to be free to be who He has called us to be. Don’t put God in a box. Open the box and allow Him to show you amazing things that He can do and wonderful aspects of His nature and character that you may never have known. He loves you far more than you can imagine. One truth we all need to understand is that He wants us to have life and have it abundantly!

Remember I do not write this blog on the weekends so I will be back with a fresh blog on the 20th. Please read John 10 and 11 on your own this weekend. I will have comments on John chapter 12 on Monday.