Truth; The Unshakeable Pillar...and Good, Good News

 I think a lot of us don't know what to believe when it comes to COVID-19

so many differing opinions on how to handle it!

After listening to THIS I don't know what to think!!!

...so I turn back to this; 

the words Jesus prayed in the garden 

shortly before Pilate begged 'what is Truth'?

The Truth raises Love’s scepter like an unshakeable rod

It parts the murky waters with the faultless Word of God

The Truth ignites Hope’s Beacon like a stream of Light unfurled

It rends the dark with mercy because God so loved the World

The Truth secures Faith’s buckle on a belt that girds the soul

And holds us up when trouble would let fear gain full control

The Truth saves us from death and hell; it triumphs o’er the grave

From Calvary it flowed and fell in pow’r mighty to save

The Truth will never lead astray; its compass sound and sure

It guides us with a steadfast ray and judgment just and pure

Ah, what is truth the people cry whose ears/hearts have not yet ‘heard’

The Truth WAS, IS, FORVERMORE, God’s everlasting Word

© Janet Martin

For those who are asking 'How may I be saved/born again.'

Jesus explains. (his words are written in red)

Long ago a member of the Jewish ruling council, named Nicodemus

asked the same question.

We often hear the verse John 3:16 in this chapter but not always

the setting where it was spoken to a seeker of truth

Here  is the way to Jesus who said 

"I am the Way, The Truth and the Life". 

John 14:6

 Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus 
who was a member of the Jewish ruling council.
² He came to Jesus at night and said,
 “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. 
For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”

³ Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God 

unless they are born again.^[a]”

⁴ “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked.

 “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”

⁵ Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God 

unless they are born of water and the Spirit. 

 ⁶ Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit^[b] gives birth to spirit. 

 ⁷ You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You^[c] must be born again.’ 

 ⁸ The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, 

but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. 

So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”^[d]

⁹ “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.

¹⁰ “You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things?

  ¹¹ Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, 

but still you people do not accept our testimony. 

 ¹² I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; 

how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?  

¹³ No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.^{[e] 14} Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,^[f] 

¹⁵ that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”^[g]

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,

 that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 

 ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world,

 but to save the world through him. 

¹⁸ Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 

¹⁹ This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, 

but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 

 ²⁰ Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light 

for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 

²¹ But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, 

so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done 

has been done in the sight of God.