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Unwrap the Truth this Christmas |
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are some things in life we just take for granted, like 2+2=4.
They’re just true. We don’t question them and we don’t really think
about them – until we are short-changed in a shop and add up the
bill again!
Other things are true for some and not for others. If we drive down
the right-hand carriageway of a motorway in the UK, we break the law
and are likely to injure ourselves and others. That is not true in
France, say! However, when it comes to issues of belief and morals
what we deem to be true can be reduced to a matter of personal
choice. What someone else considers to be the truth may not be what
I believe to be the truth. It can all get very confusing. Pontius
Pilate, the Roman officer who gave the command for Jesus to be
crucified, asked the question, “What is truth?”1
It’s a hugely important question: what we believe shapes the way we
live, how we treat others and, indeed, our eternal destiny.
So here comes Jesus into the world at Christmas! “The Word became
flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the
glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace
and truth.”2 And we read what Jesus
himself said: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No-one comes
to the Father except through me.”3
If it was so important and costly for God to send Jesus into our
world to bring us truth then it would seem important – however
costly – to explore the story of Jesus …
We wish you a Happy Truth-filled Christmas
1 John 18:38; 2
John 1:14; 3 John 14:6 (New International
Version)
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