Carol McClain

How Do You Know What Is Right and True?

Carol McClain

The world is hungry for happiness, and it is starving.

Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds prosperity and honor. Pr. 21:21

 If we look at the world around us today, we see the truth of the above. Everyone touts, “I’ll living my truth.” Like Pilate, who asked, “What is truth?” they set about to redefine it. In the process, only Orwellian doublespeak works.

A few contemporary examples

1. Maybe someone believes in a pro-abortion. They define the conceived child as only a fetus (which actually  originates from the Latin fētus, meaning “offspring,” “bringing forth,” or “hatching of young”). The conception is a fetus nless the mother wants the child. Then it’s not a blob of cells. The mother calls her child a baby. If a pregnant woman is murdered, the culprit is charged with a double homicide–one for the woman, one for the unborn child. However, if the woman was going to an abortion clinic, then the death of that baby wouldn’t be considered murder. Classic doublespeak.
2.  We’ve abandoned God’s design of marriage being between a man and a woman. By logic, two men or two women cannot procreate. This, even if you don’t believe in God, is contrary to nature. If nothing procreating, everything would be dead.
3. We’ve decided that the biologically proven science of two X chromosomes determining your life as female or an XY pair make you a male is mutable. Why? Because of feelings? If feelings determine the truth, why do we try to change the thinking of an anorexic? She knows for a fact she is fat. By the transgender reasoning, we have to accept the fact that her truth stands. We should withhold food. And who’s to say the schizophrenic’s voices aren’t real. He knows they are.

Truth is truth. Fact is fact. It cannot, by definition change.

Righteousness is, according to one definition in Merriam Webster, “the quality or state of being rightful or just.” The dictionary also defines it as, “the quality or state of being righteous : conformity to the divine or the moral law.”

Matt. 5: 6 states If we hunger for righteousness, we will be filled.

If we hunger for a sane world that functions as it ought, we will strive for righteousness. In Jesus’s day, righteousness equaled justice, generosity, goodwill, compassion.

We’re not to excoriate those on the wrong path. Not should the world criticize someone  severely and publicly for believing in proven truth . Truth is true in all situations. If two people believe the opposite–at least one of them is believing a lie.

If you think the world is topsy-turvy, if you believe things have to change, there is one answer.

Jesus’s teachings.