2320) As a person who has always been sensitive to words I notice, “truth” has taken on many meanings. It used to be defined as the facts or reality about something, but now it’s often defined as the facts you think about something.

Why is the definition of “truth” important? For one, two contradictory ideas cannot both be true. If two people are looking at a zebra and one says it’s a zebra and the other says it’s a cow, can both of these statements be true?

I also think many people are afraid to claim truth because our society has strongly established there is no truth. Sometimes a lie becomes truth after rationalization.

Facing the truth about some reality of this life can also be very painful, and yet, Jesus said The truth will set you free.

John 8:32 uses the word truth twice, and both are the same word in the Greek. The word is alétheia, which meant certainty, objectively, universally true. This word is also a synonym for reality.

To seek truth is not only a command, but it is following all that Jesus is, including The Truth.

Seeking truth also involves courage. It takes courage to face and deal with truth.

You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.