Facts vs Truth
We confuse information for truth. Information today, like ash from an exploding volcano, proliferates until it pollutes the air and blocks out the sun, but information is not truth. Information is made of fleeting facts that change with time that may or may not be accurate.
On the one hand, information may lead to knowledge; knowledge and experience may lead to truth; and truth may lead to wisdom and greater truth. On the other hand, information may increase like kudzu until its entangling vines choke out knowledge and its broad leaves shut out the light of truth. Kudzu does not kill by sucking out the energy of its victims. It is not a parasite. Kudzu canopies a trailer or covers a car as easily as it conceals a tree.
Kudzu kills by blocking out the light. So, it is with Satan. Satan is filled with darkness, and if he can get us to confuse darkness for light, he can capture us in his net. From Mount Sinai, the Lord gave the children of Israel the law of liberty known as the Ten Commandments; however, they turned away from God. Isaiah, lamenting the loss of liberty, said,
“The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.” (Isaiah 9:2)
Isaiah could be describing our day. This nation was also built upon the Ten Commandments. One by one we are removing them from our laws and banning the symbols from our nation. We are straying from the freedom that our founding fathers sacrificed their lives to leave us. The people of Israel turned away from the light, and darkness overshadowed them. What happened to the children of Israel will also happen to us if we turn away from the light.
The great curse of our day is a gluttony of facts and a famine of truth, an increase in knowledge and a decrease in wisdom, an increase in choices, and a decrease in restraint, an increase in licentiousness and a decrease in virtue, an increase in freedom and a decrease in agency, an increase in advice and a decrease in service, an increase in charities and a decrease in charity, an increase in medicine and a decrease in healing, an increase in information and a decrease in truth.
We deny the effects of law even in the face of facts. We seek elsewhere for a solution to the ills of our day, thus compounding the problem for we weave sin with sin until we are caught in our own net. Even a spider knows not to tread on the stick threads. She leaves that for her victims. If we continue that downward spiral, we will lose all freedom because we will lose all truth. Earth is a proving ground. We came to earth to learn how to increase in light, truth, law, freedom, agency, liberty, power, knowledge, wisdom, and joy. The key is obedience to law, and as the Psalmist says,
“Thy Law is the Truth.” (Psalm 119:142)
When we search for law, we search for truth. When we obey truth, we become free from Captivity. It was Christ who said,
31 If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (John 8:31-32)
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