Divine Authority: One of my relatives, who shall remain unnamed, has managed to gather together as much intellectual rubbish and outright moral insanity as one can possibly fit onto a single platform, ideas that defy not only Scripture, but the simplest laws of reason and life itself. She champions causes that defy God’s created order, abortion as a right, the denial of gender, truth as emotion, and the celebration of confusion and perversity. And yet, astonishingly, her public platform, followed by multitudes, is subtitled simply TRUTH.
Ask my wife how hard I laughed the first time I saw her platform was titled “truth,” and then ask her again how my laughter turned to astonishment when I saw how many followed her. An army of the deceived, driven by feelings, intoxicated with pride, and 100% confident that they alone have it all figured out. “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.” Isaiah 5:20. People, in my thoughts, glued to their screens, trading opinions like truth and peddling emotion as insight, who have no thought of God and no time to seek the Lord. He is literally in none of their thoughts, and when they do call upon His name, they call upon an idol of their own imagination, a god who accepts them as they are, because, after all, that’s just the “nice” thing to do. And though some may still profess a certain respect for the Scriptures, it reaches no deeper than convenience; they choose the verses that soothe them, the parts that comfort, just in case everything doesn’t work out in the end.
Pilate’s question still echoes through every generation, “what is truth?” John 18:38. It is the same question the world still asks as it gropes along in its own darkness, not really to find the answer, but to avoid it. “For this people’s heart is waxed gross…” Matthew 13:15. Truth was not hidden that day; it stood before Pilate in Christ, and still that same voice speaks from the pages of Scripture, yet man prefers his illusions, proving that apart from divine grace, he will always choose darkness rather than light. John 3:19. What man praises as free thought, Scripture condemns as pride. Yet the God who owed us nothing has spoken! And what He has spoken is enough, light, truth, and glory in His Son, Jesus Christ. Hebrews 1:1-2.
There, divine authority stands unshaken, unaltered by time or opinion. In that light alone, we must seek the truth. Here alone is light for those who walk in darkness, truth for those who would otherwise perish in their own thoughts. Outside of this blessed book, man gropes in darkness. All his brilliance, all his progress, all his philosophy cannot kindle a single beam of true light. The world’s amusements, its games, its glitter, its endless distractions, all will prove empty and bitter disappointments in the end. This is the cruel irony of our age, even as the lights grow brighter, the hearts grow emptier. These endless diversions cannot teach, cannot save, cannot satisfy. “One thing needful.” Luke 10:42.
In the end, truth belongs to revelation, not to human discovery. Hidden from the wise and revealed to the broken, that no flesh should glory in His presence. I Corinthians 1:29. And I truly believe that once revealed, it ceases to be an object of speculation and becomes the atmosphere of thought itself. Colossians 3:16. There is no truth elsewhere, there is no other standard, there is no other authority! Once truth is revealed, it is not simply received, it consumes and transforms. The proud mind yields to truth, the rebellious heart bows low, and we, by grace, believe “the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.” John 2:22. We have no tribunal above scripture, no court of appeal against it. Through all our days, the one great inquiry remains the same, “what saith the LORD?” All else must be silent before that voice. MPJ