Daily Journal: 27 August

Why Following After Truth

Is Important

Without truth, where are we in life?

“My truth” and “your truth” is a conflicted message that trips off people’s tongues in recent years, and trips up people’s lives.

Partial truth is no truth at all. Truths are foundational principles, that stabilise life and society.

To believe that we need “consensus over truth”, as was posited by the head of an influential news outlet in the United States in 2025, opposes truth itself, is misleading, and destabilising. This is why following after truth is important.

2 Timothy 2:15-17 (NASB)

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a worker who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. But avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness ^{[they will make further progress in ungodliness]}, and their ^[word] talk will spread like gangrene.

How would consensus over truth be reached? Everybody must lay down, even ‘their own truth’ and concede to … who? Everybody must lay down their own conscience for … what? Domination rather than freedom.

Galatians 4:16 (NLV)

[Paul writing] Do you hate me because I have told you the truth? Those false teachers are trying to turn your eyes toward them. They do not want you to follow my teaching. What they are doing is not good. It is good when people help you if they do not hope to get something from it.

The teaching that Paul was talking about is the gospel of truth, the truth of the kingdom of God that Jesus brought, that everyone who believes would be saved.

Truth is something to be cherished.

Zechariah 8:19 (NIV)

Therefore, love truth and peace.

We have to know where truth begins and ends. We don’t need to be ashamed of it. Indeed, the truth enlightens and frees us.

John 1:9-10 (HCSB)

The true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world ^{[Or The true light who comes into the world gives light to everyone]}. He was in the world, and the world was created through Him, yet the world did not recognize Him.

John 1:14 (GWT)

The Word became human and lived among us. We saw his glory. It was the glory that the Father shares with his only Son, a glory full of kindness ^[grace] and truth.