Left to Our Own Devices

When left to our own devices (meaning left separate from and ignorant of God and the truth of His design) every human is prone (not guaranteed) to the following, which are all based out of selfishness:
Hate
Division
Racism
Promiscuity
Self Righteousness
Homosexuality
etc.

The only qualification to this is that all of us can be presented with temptation for every vice, but there are only certain ones that are effective on each individual.

None of these things are rooted in truth, revealing man’s inability and lack of desire to submit to truth.

Romans 8:7 (AMP) says this, “The mind of the flesh [with its sinful pursuits] is actively hostile to God (and truth). It does not submit itself to God’s law since it cannot..”

The truth is always countercultural in some way or another. That’s just the way it is! Man is inconsistent and our hearts & minds are deceitfully wicked. I don’t even have to tell you this, you already know it!

Because of this, ANYTHING inconsistent with objective reality, our origin, or our purpose must be addressed and corrected if we want to walk in truth. Whether we like it or not. Whether it feels good or not. The truth can be hard to handle sometimes, but it’s worth fighting for!

To denounce every item on that list is to be aware of man’s complete rebellion towards truth. Lies can enrage or delight depending on the lie. Truth and deception are both double edged swords and the fight between them is a war! And only one side can and will win. The truth always marches on! It always has and it always will for it is in its very nature to win. What is right cannot be wrong, therefore it cannot lose. Now you can argue all day long about what is true, but only the truth knows what is true. We can only find it, we do not create it. There must be an authority on what is true and that authority only makes sense to be the Creator. God.

In fact, God is Truth itself. He manifested all things, nothing is true apart from him! What He has to say about what He has done is what goes. Lest you “find a loophole” about God lying, look at Numbers 23:19, “God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken and will He not make it good and fulfill it?” Truth can’t lie because God can’t lie.

Jesus even says in John 14:6, “I am The Way and The Truth and The Life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.”

The truth is love as well since God is love. Truth is both loving and holy. You cannot separate the two. Nuance and complexity abound, are you brave enough to seek out the full truth?‬

“This is the judgment [that is, the cause for indictment, the test by which people are judged, the basis for the sentence]: the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For every wrongdoer hates the Light, and does not come to the Light [but shrinks from it] for fear that his [sinful, worthless] activities will be exposed and condemned. But whoever practices truth [and does what is right–morally, ethically, spiritually] comes to the Light, so that his works may be plainly shown to be what they are–accomplished in God [divinely prompted, done with God’s help, in dependence on Him].”‭‭ – John‬ ‭3:19-21‬ (AMP)

Only in God’s strength do we walk in the Light of Truth.