Truth is like a Mountain

 

Having recently reunited with someone from my past and trying to make sense of a difficult chapter in my life, I’ve come to learn that the truth of what happened is sometimes relative to a person’s perspective and memory.  

I believe that very often we embrace a certain version of the truth that makes it easier for us to live with.  The thing about ‘truth’ is that it has so many different versions and in reality, only God can see it from all angles. I like to think that truth is like a mountain and depending on what part of the mountain we can see, it is what we accept to be the truth.  Maybe that’s what has happened with all the different denominations of interpreting the Bible in their own way…  It is all the same truth, just a different angle of it. 

The Bible tells us that the truth will set us free, and I believe that’s true, but I’ve also learnt that when it comes to God’s truth, it’s the condition of our heart’s soil that determines the interpretation. And when it comes to the truth told by a person, we have to accept what they tell us at face value, because no matter how difficult it is to understand sometimes, people don’t always behave the way we expect them to and sometimes the assumed stories we make up in our mind can be very far from the truth.

Instead, let us trust God to be the judge of what is the honest truth and when it’s not, then all we can do is pray that the person’s own conscious will convict them…