Just Thinking

Is a really so easy to fall into a world that we give definition too. I'm amazed at how many people believe reality is a product of their mind. It seems to me they consider it's simply illogical and in many cases arrogant to believe that there is some objective truth that exists outside themselves. I do realize that this is a prevailing philosophy that has found its way into our culture over decades and centuries of time. Still, nonetheless, I find it absolutely amazing that these men that brought this thought process into the mainstream educational system were in fact considered highly intelligent individuals. It seems to me that even the definition of intelligence must recognize the need for a objective truth outside of itself. I am certainly not denying the unique worldviews that exist, as I can see it in each and every single one of my friends. I have some friends that inspire me with their incredible sense of creativity. I have other friends who are artist, writers, poets, dances, scientiest. I have friends that like coffee, and I have friends that hate coffee. I have friends that believe there is no truth, and I have friends I believe everything is truth. My point is this. There is most definitely a level of unique individual truth that exists around us, each person being an incredible subject to the King. But let us remember we are subjects and God is the object. It becomes obvious in that each person has a unique and individual expression and understanding of reality. So I can see how it would be easy to believe that all there is is human opinion, and there is nothing else. But this to me is where we have hit a brick wall. If all that is, is only subjective, than why even talk. There is certainly no way we can communicate unless we can agree on an objective definition of the word that we're using to communicate. With this said, I do believe that it is no less profound that has the Bible says in the beginning of the Gospel of John: in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was with God, the Word was with God in the beginning. I just think that we need to live in a society that seeks objective truth. It seems to me that labeling truth as subjective is an incredible cop out and incredibly easy mistake to make. If truth is subjective and everything I do is without consequence, then I literally create my own reality. If however true truth is objective than this has radical implications in my life. Then all of a sudden I become subject to something bigger than myself. This certainly changes the way I will live. As you can see in my language I am not denying subjectivity. I am only asserting that my subjectivity is laid before the object of my worship, who is known as God Almighty. I would further assert that this is true for everyone, whether they are willing to admit it or not. You see, if everything is a matter of opinion than what you're really saying is my own opinion is my objective standard. Therefore I become the definition of my own morality, therefore I become the definition of my own life. This is a dangerous place to be. In the search for truth I have found that I am quite ignorant and incapable of coming to any deep philosophical truth on my own accord, therefore I consider it of the utmost blessing that God has laid his word out in the book for me to read. As Christians, I think that we should constantly be of this mind, and that it will keep us desperately seeking to live by that plan, which is the standard and the measure of reality. If your a non-believer than ask yourself what standard you live by? If we live by what I would call the greatest standard, which is the Word of God, then certainly we will see a world transformed before our eyes. I just want to encourage my Christian brothers and sisters to seek the Word, and to consider it a great joy. We have in our grasps something that is beyond the world. Something that endures forever , something that does not pass away and I don't want to take it for granted. I'm going to try to live up to this standard in my life. And I would encourage everyone else, to seek the same. In a postmodern world that holds fast to the idea that truth cant be know, I say lets claim it can be known, and lets prove it by knowing the truth in relationship.