I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on John 17-18.

    My focus today will be on what John writes in this passage about truth. God’s truth will make us holy. That is not quite right. God will make us holy by His truth. Jesus gave His disciples God’s word, which is truth. And the reciprocal of that is true as well. Truth is God’s word. God’s word will reveal to us what is true, and as we learn what is true we hear God’s word more clearly. The world hates those who listen to God’s word because the world does not want to accept His truth. Which brings me to Pilate’s response to Jesus, “What is truth?” The world does not want to accept that there is objective truth. The world defines as true that which they desire to be true and feels threatened by those who acknowledge that truth is not a matter of opinion. Jesus sends us into the world to testify to God’s truth just as He was sent into the world for that same purpose. The final point I want to make is that Jesus talks about desiring His followers to be in unity with one another. Unity is only possible when we stand fully in God’s truth. IF we allow ourselves to be deceived by lies we will be separated from each other because each of us will insist that what we want to be true is true. We can only live in unity when we agree that God’s truth is the only truth.