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Anything Not Total Truth is Untruth

by Robert [Bob] Schaetzle Sr. 
01/17/23
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                Anything Not Total Truth is Untruth
                By Robert Schaetzle

 Jesus then said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples  and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
John 8:31-32 RSV

Driving home from work many years ago listening to a pastor on the radio warning us about ‘half-truth.’ He went on to say, “be careful of listening to half-truths, it might be the wrong half.”  The comment has stuck with me all these many years.

Today, we’re challenged more than ever in our lifetime as we witness the culture re-define itself as a society of ‘false information.’ Some of ourbusiness world of marketing and advertising are wanting us to accept their claims, ‘how their product or service will outperform or last longer because…’

But God doesn’t score our Spiritual heart condition on a curve of human reasoning, does he?   

I can remember like it was yesterday, my dad had a little machine shop in the back of our property growing up. Witnessing him agree to a job he would do. He’d seal the job bid with a hand shake. Seldom would he draw up a written contract with stipulations of the work done. He built a reputation of moral integrity, and truth of his promise to complete the task. That was sufficient.

Today, our desire of accuracy and truth must not be influenced from the standards of the world around us. Too many people use the term, ‘planned obsolescence,’ to be accepted as the way it is. But integral honesty is God’s work not mans’.

Father, continue to search my heart for truth that will set me free.

 Robert serves in a Sharing and Caring Ministry to bring encouragement and hope