Philosopher Dallas Willard makes a provocative proposal:
"Followers of Jesus are required to pursue truth wherever it leads
them." This is perhaps a strange way to say it, but even more than we need
to be committed to Jesus, we need to be committed to truth. For it is
impossible to trust Jesus if way down deep inside, you don't think He was
right. Sometimes believers are afraid that pursuing truth wherever it leads
might make us uncomfortable. But as C. S. Lewis wrote, "Comfort is the one
thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find
comfort in the end: If you look for comfort, you will not get either comfort or
truth -- only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with, and in the end,
despair."
Jesus Himself had quite a lot to say about truth. He
said: "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you will
know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:31b-32). "I
am the way and the truth and the life: (14:6). "When He, the Spirit of
truth, comes, He will guide you into all truth" (16:13).
Another way of saying this is, if you have to choose
between Jesus and truth, choose truth. But according to Jesus, if you search
for truth, you will find Him. There is no other way to trust Jesus than to
think and question and wrestle and struggle until you come to see that He
really is true. One purpose of doubt is to motivate us to do that.
-- John Ortberg in Faith & Doubt
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