God of Truth

I am an honest person. Most everyone who knows me would say that about me. 

Yet, I confess that I am also very skilled at the human art of spinning the truth to an angle that is most flattering for it, when such a spin is necessary. I won't lie to you, but sometimes, I will have you look most directly at the part of the truth that is most applicable to the situation or the outcome. I try to do this non-manipulatively; that is, NOT so that I can control the outcome, but rather, just knowing who you are and understanding how things hit you, I try to make sure the truth hits you right. 

We all do this, to some extent. It's part of being social beings in relationship with one another and our community. It's simply how we communicate. 

There are, of course, outright liars among us. There are persons who will turn the truth for their own ends, who will always try to tell you straight like it needs to be for them to accomplish or receive whatever their end game is. There are persons who are so good at lying that they even convince themselves that their lies are the truth. 

Everywhere we go, we know...there is a truth, but we're only getting some version of it. At our best, we're getting the best a fallen human can do from a limited perspective; at our worst, we're getting a trick of the devil. 

God, on the other hand, isn't limited by the things that we are limited by. He doesn't have a limited perspective; He sees and knows everything. He isn't bound by social obligations; He has mastered the art of simply being who He is and letting His creation deal with it. He doesn't have to play with niceties and political correctness; He speaks, and there is light. 

Proverbs says every word God says is true. 

Every single one of them. 

That leaves us, then, as creatures of limited perspective, trying to figure out what we want to do with it. And the key comes in how we shift our perspective to understand.

Remember when I said that I'm always trying to figure out how you will hear a truth before I speak it? (I said this a few paragraphs ago in different words.) The aim is to put the best face of the truth toward you so that you are receptive to it. 

As limited beings trying to understand an infinite God who speaks absolute truth, we have to do something similar. We have to look at the face of the truth that God has given us, the one He's put toward us, and re-orient our lives accordingly. We have to accept that the truth is exactly what it looks like, exactly what He's shown us, and then figure out what direction that means we have to face to see it. We have to accept that it is the truth, whatever it is, and live like God means what He says. 

Because every single word He says is true. Perfectly, purely, infinitely true. 

We just have to wrap our finite minds around that.