A Famine of Truth

One of the things people are confused these days is truth. Many think that truth is something that man makes, and not accept. And he has made a lot of so-called “truths” out there that the common man is confused what to believe in.

But truth is not made in the hands of man, but in the heart of God. God reveals Truth, man is only to accept or reject it.

Because of our ignorance of the truth and most of all our apathy towards it, we have made our society unstable and shaky.

Truth is the building block of everything. All scientists, engineers, architects or any kind of builders must submit themselves to the truth of math and science. Imagine an airplane engineer who rejects the Law of Gravity. Just think of the planes he will build. Would you ride that plane? If an architect has rejected the laws of math and physics, would his building stand or fall? Would you like this architect to build your house?

It is no wonder our society is in chaos and falling apart. There is no Truth to hold it together.

So why is there a famine of truth?

Because we have rejected God, who is Truth, and His Church, the voice of His Truth.

Because God’s Truth is demanding, man has searched for other sources of truth. Truths that are pleasing and convenient to himself. Even if they are not true. And so man has wandered to seek “his” truths, the truths he likes. And the more he wanders off away from God’s truth, the more he loses THE Truth within himself. He is now filled with different so-called truths that contradict themselves. He is now neither pleased nor convenient but miserable.

When he rejected God’s Truth, he unknowingly had thrown joy out of the window. For real joy abides in Truth. No Truth, no joy. You can never be really happy until you know the truth about yourself. And that truth is that you are made for God. You are made to be holy. You are made for self-giving love. Apart from His Truth, there is only poverty.

Yes, days are coming, says the Lord GOD,
when I will send famine upon the land:
Not a famine of bread, or thirst for water,
but for hearing the word of the LORD.
Then shall they wander from sea to sea
and rove from the north to the east
In search of the word of the LORD,
but they shall not find it.
-Amos 8: 11-12

If you feel like you are in a famine, desperate and joyless, maybe because you have deprived yourself of the Word of God… the food of our being.
The Word is waiting for you to come to Him.

Jesus, the Word made flesh.