Our country is suffering from a painful absence of truth, I would even go so far as to say an aversion to the truth. Aristotle defines truth in this way, “To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true” Think about that for a minute. Now, compare it to the morning news. It feels as if the media is telling us constantly to say of what is that it is not and to say of what is not that it is; the very definition of false.

Have you ever seen a young child with a shape sorter? How many times does he have to try to force a shape into the wrong shaped hole before he realizes that it doesn’t fit? Does it help to berate him, constantly screaming that he’s wrong? What about if you too as an adult try to replicate his behavior, trying the way that is clearly wrong yourself? This is what our culture is telling us we must do. I would argue instead that the best way to teach truth is to model it.

As a Christian and as a parent, I love 3 John Verse 4, “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.” The entirety of 2 John and 3 John focus on this topic. Neither book can separate truth from love. If we are walking in truth, then we are also walking in love. 2 John Verse 6 says, “And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.”

Whether our culture believes the truth or not, we don’t need to get down in the mire and futility of untruth and argue with them. We simply need to live in the truth. By confidently living in truth, we can be a stark contrast to a culture that is losing its collective mind on all fronts.

How many times will people try to fit their square peg into a round hole before they look up and see that those who walk in truth are not suffering their desperate frustration? We don’t walk in truth alone so as to be unloving to those who are in darkness but instead in truth AND love so that we may point others to the light of Christ. Truth doesn’t need to be argued. It is just true, a natural law, whether we believe it or not.