SECULAR MEN CONFUSE TRUTHS WITH “TRUTH”

By A. W. Tozer
 

The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth;
by understanding hath he established the heavens.
  - Proverbs 3:19

  The celebrated prayer of the great German astronomer,
Kepler, has been a benediction to many: "0 God, I thank
Thee that Thou has permitted me to think Thy thoughts
after Thee!"

  This prayer is theologically sound because it acknowl-
edges the priority of God in the universe. Whatever new
thing anyone discovers is already old, for it is but the
present expression of a previous thought of God. The
idea of the thing precedes the thing itself; and when
things raise thoughts in the thinker's mind these are the
ancient  thoughts  of  God,  however  imperfectly
understood.

  Should an atheist, for instance, state that two times
two equals four, he would be stating a truth and think-
ing God's thoughts after Him, even though he might
deny that God exists.

  In their search for facts, men have confused truths
with truth. The words of Christ, "Ye shall know the
truth and the truth shall make you free," have been
wrenched from their context and used to stir people to
the expectation of being made "free" by knowledge.
Certainly this is not what Christ had in mind when He
uttered the words.

  It is the Son who is the Truth that makes men free.
Not facts, not scientific knowledge, but eternal Truth
delivers men, and that eternal Truth became flesh to
dwell among us!

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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.