Abba,

Truth.

As I sit here and pray for our nation, for President Trump, for President-Elect Biden, for congress, for the impeachment, for a world divided, I am overcome with grief…with uncertainty.  I hear the growing debate, I witness the growing divide.  I listen to the arguments, the rhetoric, the accusations, and I see the behavior of all sides.  And I am grieved and confused, sorrowful and lost.

Truth seems so far away, Abba.

What am I to believe?  Who am I to trust?  In what way(s) should I be responding?  Where is wisdom when I lack it?  Where is discernment when I am in desperate need of it?  Where is the path I am to tread?  How do I lead and shepherd, serve and live in the face of such manipulations of truth?

From the serpents first approach, truth has been the target of malicious intent and the object designated for destruction.  Long has it been under attack and evermore we see the war waged in public and profane ways.

Never in my entire life has the battle ever felt more intense.  And it not just in the realm of politics that I see it.  The more I counsel, disciple, and engage in the private and personal lives of people, I see it.  Truth seems so far away.  It feels like the unreachable peak; the unachievable goal; the impossible desire.  Cynicism and distrust, hesitation, doubt, and immobility of action seem to be the only thing left.  With so much hatred of truth, so much deviation from it, so many deceptions and lies….how does one learn to trust again? How are right choices made when lies seem to be all that there is and truth seems so far away?

I am left with only one answer….

When truth is aloof and unclear, trust the one who knows the truth.  Trust the one who holds truth.  Trust the one WHO IS TRUTH.

This is the answer that comes to me by your prompting, Spirit.  And how right and true it is. 

Abba, our call is to obey and trust you.  And you have never hidden truth from us.  You have never sought to confuse, to mislead, to conceal.  You have exposed, revealed, shed light of truth upon all.  You have shown the light of truth upon our hearts enabling us to see. 

When we cannot trust what we hear and see in this world around us, we are not without hope or help.  The truth of your word is as ever true now as it was when things were more clear to us. 


Therefore, the answer for us…trust you. Obey. Fulfill the work of the ministry you have designated for us. Fulfill the work laid out for us and through the ministry grace that flows through our being, the world will be radically changed. For God, though we may not know the truth, you do. And we do not need to know it in order to be obedient. We do not need to know it to trust. Therefore, Abba, let us be active, engaged, carrying the hope of the gospel in our being, in our words, in our lives so that all who see it, see you!