What is Truth?

John 18:38 (Pilate said to him) What is truth? Have you noticed how difficult it is to get the truth these days? The news is now filtered through world views to the extent that now even the weathermen have to include an agenda when describing why it is hot or cold, or even just right. We are constantly bombarded with information at a pace that has never been seen before, but how much of it is true? We've been trained that as long as the info fits our liking then it is a fact, because in America perception seems to trump reality. When is the last time you really stopped and asked "What is truth?". It is a great question and one that has huge implications for our lives and our souls. Pilate is asking this exact question to Jesus himself as they are discussing his kingship. Jesus tells him face to face that he is King and that His kingdom is from another world and that he is here to bear witness to the truth. That truth being that God has provided a way of salvation through the righteousness of Christ. Pilate makes a grave era in his quest for information though and stops receiving Truth from Christ and decides to go outside to see what the people's thoughts are about "the Truth of Jesus". They tell him to kill Jesus and release a criminal. He even declares that he finds no fault in Jesus multiple times. He declares him innocent of all counts. Pilate's wife even intervenes to tell Him that she has had a dream that warns about doing Jesus harm. Now Pilate has total authority over the situation (supposedly), declares Jesus innocent, is warned by his wife and has been confronted face to face by God about "the Truth" so he goes and digs deeper right? Wrong! he doesn't dig into the truth. The scriptures that prophesied about Christ were there for the reading in the temple down the road. Wouldn't it be wise to investigate the facts of someone claiming to be God, who walked around raising dead people who you knew was innocent but yet you were going to execute? A time out when have been handy. Yet Pilate caves to the pressure of the demands of the people and their threats to let someone else claiming to be King live in Caesars kingdom and orders Jesus to the Cross. Now I know that all of this had to occur to fulfill scripture, but there is a good word for us in this examination of Pilate. The same claims of Christ are in front of each of us to look into on a daily basis. The same Holy Scriptures and witness of the saints is available to profit us in either conversion of belief or sanctification of the believer. What do we do with it? Do we like Pilate turn to people for "the truth" or do we turn to Christ? The demands of the day, and the pressure of the world choked the spiritual life out of Pilate. Is it doing the same to you? Stop and realize how much senseless information we all digest that is not the Truth and grab hold of the Gospel and beauty of Jesus.