The Mirror of Truth
Abandoning the Truth That Rescues Me
It’s been said that confession is good for the soul. If that’s true, then I’d like to make my confession, here and now. When I look in the mirror, I’m never quite sure about what I see. Is it the face of a fearless seeker of truth, or of one afraid of embracing the truth? I can’t help wondering: What is it about a person that causes them to eagerly run toward the light one day and then eagerly flee from it the next? Why do I find myself abandoning the truth that so often rescues me just when I need it most?
But wait. Could there be another reason why I’m so divided? Is it because The Bible often creates as much confusion as it does clarity? After all, it’s not only the source of the very best that humanity can offer the world, but it can also be the source of the very worst. And how is that even possible, anyway? Does that mean there’s a better way to interpret its message? And if so, am I alone in the search for this better way or actually one among many? Certainly I’m not the first person to ask the question: What is truth? And I’m certainly not the last to wonder why no one bothered to offer an answer.
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Then it dawns on me: Maybe we were told the answer, but we didn’t like the answer we were given. So, when we ask how The Bible can inspire both the best and worst in humanity, maybe the problem doesn’t lie so much with the book itself but with something altogether different. But what?
Or should I say … who?
Of course, the Scriptures describe the role that many have played in this great whodunit of the ages. Naturally, there’s God. There is—if you believe The Bible—the devil. There are the myriad ones who’ve made their way across the stage of biblical history: Adam and Eve; and Cain and Abel; there’s Noah and his family, and Abraham and his descendants; Moses, the prophets; Jesus and the apostles. And just like every great story, each of these timeless tales has a hero and a villain. More often than not, though, while it’s easy to blame all our problems on the devil for his role in humanity’s downfall, or God for letting it happen, it turns out that the real villain is us.
