"..Justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter." These words describe the perils of a society that leaves its moral moorings, denies the existence of Truth as an absolute, and sets sail only to drown in the sea of relativism (Isaiah 59:14).

Truth has stumbled in the streets. It did not fall on its own accord. Truth only stumbles when those who purport to be its friends, deliberately obstruct its path and refuse to uphold it.

The philosophers of the Enlightenment enthroned 'reason' over 'revelation' and predicted the universal demise of religion. Eventually all would subscribe to their hypothesis and no longer seek after God. We need only to rely upon reason, and trust that there is a scientific answer for everything. There is no need to ascribe life's wonderful mysteries to the Divine.

Later, others who were looked to as friends of Truth, the Existentialists, declared, "Life is meaningless. God is dead. And there is no moral law." The bold meaning to life is that there is no meaning. The proponents of these philosophies could not live by them and found themselves aligning to moral causes, searching for meaning, and living with the nagging possibility of their personal accountability to a Creator God.

Mainline Christian denominations bought into this modernism, and taught the Bible as a literary source of culture-bound ideas, rather than as the inspired propositional Truth revealing the purpose, plan and mind of the Creator.

The children of the Enlightenment who predicted that 'the modern person' would have no need to seek after God, have been proved wrong. While the modernist preaches a Christ-less Christianity to dwindling congregations, millions are finding that their genuine spiritual needs are being met as they fellowship with the faithful where the Word of God is proclaimed and upheld as Truth.

Those who proudly claim that faith in God is only for those who are living in the past, are finding themselves by what God is doing in the present. The pseudo-intellectual snobbery that claims that Biblical belief is only for the uneducated, are being challenged by a Thought that is higher than theirs into a rational debate.

Humankind is incurably religious. Though we may try to deny meaning, morality and our accountability to Deity, our bodies, minds and spirits turn us back in their direction.

A rational being must accept the limits of his or her own scope of reason. The special revelation of God reasonably takes us beyond the limits of reason where the blanks are filled in the propositional truth of Scripture. The result is a coherence with reality that transcends that satisfies both heart and mind.

"Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool." (Isaiah 1:18 NIV).

Jesus said: "All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:27-28).

Pontius Pilate observed Jesus of Nazareth in the Hall of Judgment. "What is truth?" Pilate asked probingly. Jesus said nothing. This was frustrating to a man expecting to hear truth defined in a philosophical utterance rather than a Divine Person.

When Pontius Pilate asked Jesus if he were a king, Jesus answered, "You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me."

If you profess to be interested in truth, read the Gospel of John where truth is referred to 52 times in its concise 21 chapters. Do not let truth stumble out of your life but discover it afresh and uphold it.