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February 2026“Pilate said to Him, ‘What is truth?’” (John 18:38 NKJV).
We only need to look at what is going on in the world today to see that the question Pontius Pilate asked Jesus Christ nearly two thousand years ago, “What is Truth?” is still perhaps the greatest question ever asked.
We have a world that is rapidly changing in ways that even a few years ago I could not have imagined. We have a country that is totally divided and unable to agree on what is going on, who is at fault or how to even begin to go about fixing it. We live in a time when the lame stream news has become propaganda all the way around. Social media has distorted and destroyed people’s perception of reality.
The question of “What is Truth?” has always been the most important question a person can ask and answer, but it has never been more important or more difficult to seek truth than now. With that in mind, I want to present four steps to help us stay focused on truth, and more easily discern it.
First, we must surrender ourselves and our bodies to Christ, Romans 12:1 tells us, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.”
We must be willing to take the practical step of becoming a living sacrifice. Holiness is the standard, absolute truth not “our” truth.
There is a cost to follow Christ. Modern prosperity gospel and other false gospels would have us believe we can have it all, and give nothing in return, but the reality is, the believer must die to self every day. We must pick up our cross and follow Jesus each day.
If we want to know truth we have to fully surrender ourselves to Christ as a living sacrifice, Holy and acceptable to God. When it says it is our reasonable service, I like to see that as meaning it makes sense that we do that considering what HE sacrificed for us. It is the least we can do.
Second, we must recognize the world wants us to conform and God wants us to be transformed.
Romans 12:2 says, “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”
The language in the Greek implies that the world wants to press us into its mold. I think we can all see the world demands that we bow to it and conform to what it thinks we should be rather than what God says we should be.
We must combat the pressure of the world to conform with the only effective weapon we have — and that is transformation by the power of God to regenerate mankind and renew his mind through His Word. It is this step that will equip us to discern what is factually true.
The only way for us to know truth, and thus, the perfect and acceptable will of God, is to be in His Word daily and allow it to transform our lives to His standard not our own, and certainly not the world’s.
Third, we must humble ourselves and recognize that God is dealing with each of us in His own way. Romans 12:3 says, “For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.”
We must see ourselves as recipients of the grace of God and remember that it is Him who truly does the transformative work. This will allow us to deal graciously with others by being humble and thinking soberly, realizing it is God who has dealt us a measure of faith. It is God who reveals all truth.
Forth, we need to focus on the right things if we do not wish to be deceived by the world. The Apostle Paul says in Philippians, “Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.” (Philippians 4:8-9 NKJV).
How can we really know the truth when we see it? Sin has so corrupted every aspect of our being that it takes the Holy Spirit to reveal truth to us through God’s Word.
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