Ideas for us 6 - Reliability and Truth ...

Friday, September 3, 2010. It's the last day of our fortnight of “ideas for us”, ideas for our modern world, ideas where we should go, what we could or should do. Ideas which can shape our world since they attract humans and help to further develop society.

Trustful People Around …

The world would be different if truth would reign. Imagine everyone would be fully truthful and trustworthy! Our environment would be different. No one would steal any more. No one would take things away. You could rely on the words people say. Business would be different. Risks would be much smaller. We would all be much wealthier, much better off with the things we have, with the investment of time and effort, … Truth would make a real difference!

Our insight into many things is limited. We do not necessarily have complete insight into what is true, what is reality, what is the case. In this sense we might not be able to “always tell the truth”, since we are searching for it. Science is trying to understand something, but our understanding might be a theory only, it might catch only a part of the truth. When people observe some accident, their observations might be biased by their personal perspective. And we do not always remember everything right.

However, it is possible to be truthful and trustworthy even with a limited insight. You can admit where you do not know the full truth. You can say what is true and act according to the truth.

God is trustworthy …

A world full of truth is bound to come. God is trustworthy. He is reliable. And he is full of truth. Jesus called himself the way, the truth and the life. He connects truth and life - without truth there is no eternal life, and even here in the middle of our daily struggle, we quickly realize that without truth no stable relationships can grow. Without truth we are lost.

Let us work towards a society built on truth. Many of our forefathers knew the important role of truth. They worked towards it and we benefit from their work today - with institutions which allow to go to court, with newspapers and media which allow things to become public, with basic human rights which have become part of our constitutions and our ethics.

Full truth is a vision, which points us to the character of the eternal God, to Jesus Christ. In his company, truth gets an even deeper meaning, with truth about our goals and our motivation being fully visible, with the truth of eternal love and appreciation fully revealed. Truth is an adventure - the adventure to get to know the source of life. ... more texts