Truth Is Lacking

Have you ever had a need for more light? My food pantry is in a dark spot in my house and every time I go to the pantry I find myself wishing for more light. Until I install a fixed light that gives sufficient illumination I will always be in want for light.

This is what it is like when truth is lacking. 

Can you imagine what it would be like if you went to the kitchen sink and found it lacking of water? What would it be like if you went to the store to get household supplies and found it lacking of toilet paper? Or if you took a deep breath and found the atmosphere lacking of sufficient oxygen? 

Isaiah, declared to the city of Jerusalem (Isaian 59) that truth was lacking. He said this in a time when the people of God were spiritually active. They were visiting their temple daily. They were active in doing many religious things but this one thing was lacking, truth.

The Apostle Paul told the young preacher, Timothy, that he was to behave like a pillar and a buttress of truth. He told him there would be times that the people who claim to be of God would not put up with truth and only want preachers who would speak to them easy things or tickle their ears.

We know this is true in our day as well. 

We notice in history that when truth is lacking, morality will sink like a lead balloon or will evaporate as fast as a raindrop on a hot summer day in south-central Idaho.

Notice what is happening in front of us right now.

God created men to defend and protect their families, the poor, widows, orphans, and the vulnerable. We are in a day where you will be hard-pressed to find a man doing this anywhere. Where you do, notice how society wants to label him a mad man.

Marriage is an institution created by God between a man and a woman, period. You and I live in a day that this has been completely redefined. Where you find these kinds of truth speakers notice how society relegates them as old fashioned and out of step with the day.

The truth is men are men, women are women. A male is not a female and a female will not transition to being a male. The Bible deals with this, science promotes this, and truth-speakers who say this live now with the name, bigot.

Life begins at fertilization. But when society has been under the influence of the wrong opinion from the Supreme Court for over four decades and a weak Legislature that will not speak truth to the citizens, it will quickly be at ease with the intentional taking of life of over 60 million babies.Few men are willing to speak out against it because they’ve been told that if they don’t have a uterus they don’t have permission to speak out.

Prayer has been absent from the American classroom for more than fifty years and the impact is hardly talked about because now a pastor can barely gather a handful of praying saints at the church house. 

Wrong is now right and the nation now celebrates criminals.

We need now, more than ever before, truth. When truth is lacking the only remedy is truth.

The truth is; men are sinful, unrighteous and unable to be pleasing to God. God is sinless, righteous and able to appease His wrath. Mankind’s only hope is the salvation of God who gave His son to be a propitiation and to place His righteousness upon man by imputing man’s sin upon His son. 

There are many truth-preaching churches in the region. When you notice you are in a day where truth is lacking, make way to intentionally fill your life with truth.

Paul Thompson is the preaching pastor at Eastside Baptist Church, 204 Eastland Drive North in Twin Falls, Idaho. Eastside Baptist gathers at 10:30 a.m and 5:30 p.m. on Sundays and for corporate prayer on Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. www.esbcTwinFalls.com