What is truth?

John 18:37-38
³⁷ Pilate therefore said to Him, “Are You a king then?”
Jesus answered, “You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”
³⁸ Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no fault in Him at all.

"What is truth?" Why Jesus is truth. Jesus "came to bear witness to the truth" and is in fact truth. In John 14:6 Jesus says "I am the way, the truth, and the life."

This is the beginning of a series on the Armor of God that we are called to put on in Ephesian 6:11-17. If fact my wife and I will doing a The Whole Armor of God series on our public access show for about the next 7 weeks. You can watch it on our newly created Channy's Cafe youtube channel.

The first item in the Armor of God is the belt of truth. I have often thought of the belt of truth as guarding our selves with the truth of God. Recently I thought, "what is a belt in the context of armor?" I realized this is like a utility belt, and wouldn't you know it, that is exactly how the WEB version translates it.

Eph 6:14 Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist,

We need a belt like this to go out into the world, to take all of the tools that Jesus has given us. And because it is from Jesus it is truth.

Jesus, please forgive all my sins and be my Lord, amen.

And God ordained marriage

Genesis 2:22-24
22 Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.

23 And Adam said:
“This is now bone of my bones
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called Woman,
Because she was taken out of Man.”

24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

My wife and I recently attended my Nephew's wedding in Tucson Arizona and it got me thinking about the verses in the Bible about marriage. God's Word to us is so wonderful. He ordained marriage and made it for our companionship, pleasure, and as a type of analogy for what it will be like to be joined with God in heaven for eternity.

May we not be trapped by satan's perversion of marriage by not seeing the importance of the wedding vows. May we repent as a nation and treat Marriage with the reverence it deserves. May all wedded couples treat their spouse as themselves, doing everything they can to honor their spouse and their marriage and everything they can to strengthen their marriage and make it the blessing our Lord Jesus Christ has designed it to be.

Jesus, please forgive all my sins and be my Lord. Amen.