1 Peter 1:22-23
Many smart people surround me, people who I’ve known for
many years and some for only a few years, but a high percentile who are my age
or are getting close to it have this in common; there is much we do not know or
understand. In fact, most of these
smart people have told me they are very leery of anyone who seems to have all
the answers. So what is the answer
to this ignorance, or where can we go to improve on our lack of knowledge?
We are told that Google has the answer, and it does, just
type the word or subject in that little box on your computer, smart phone,
I-Pad, and Google will give you often more than one opinion on the word or
subject. But there in lies a
problem, what part of Google can we trust? Has Google passed the test of truth, it must have because so
many of us go there to relieve our momentary ignorance. “ I Googled,” for my
non computer readers, is using an Internet search engine to look up when it was
founded and this is what I discovered: The company was founded by Larry
Page and Sergey Brin, often dubbed the "Google
Guys," while the two were attending Stanford University as PhD candidates. It was first
incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and its initial public offering followed on August
19, 2004. It now has 20,000
employees worldwide, and the company's unofficial slogan – coined by
Google engineer Paul Buchheit – is "Don't
be evil."
No where does Google or its very smart founders say; “In
Google I trust,” but that is what so many of us do, and some are foolish enough
to believe what the talking heads have to say on the news or in the newspaper,
but often they also have gone to Google or some other internet search engine
for the information they pass on to us, or they just spin, and we are not
talking about tops, we are talking about what people in the so called new
business do with the truth to make it say what they wish, it’s called “spin”
and it means in King James English, a lie.
All of the above is a precursor to verse 22-23, “Having purified your souls by your obedience to the
truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure
heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of
imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God.” If we are to purify our souls by
obedience to the truth, we better know whom or what is truth! Many moons ago a Roman ruler and Jesus
had this exchange about truth: “Then Pilate said to
him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answer, “You
say I am a king. For this purpose
I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world – to bear witness to
the truth. Everyone who is of the
truth listens to my voice.” And Pilate’s reply, in a mocking way, is
the reply of so many today, “Pilate said to him,
“What is truth?” Jesus
did not leave us hanging on the question of truth, in John 14:6 he gives this
answer to Thomas; “I am the way, and the truth, and
the life. No one comes to the
Father except through me.”
For those who put more faith in Google than in the Bible,
you fit into the mindset of Pilate, and do not call Jesus good if He is not
“Truth” for if He is not what He claimed, He is a crazy person, not the Son of
God. I know Him to be what He
claims, He has changed my heart, but I’m still in the process of growing in and
living out His Truth.
From the Back Porch,
Bob Rice
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