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Body Building Daily Devotional - 73

by David Joynt on November 23, 2021


JOHN 18:37-38 | 37 Pilate asked him, “So you are a king?”
Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.” 38 Pilate asked him, “What is truth?”

Jesus describes Himself as a king whose royalty is manifested in His witness to the truth. Pilate then registers His cynicism: “what is truth?” For many Romans, truth was whatever the victors in the battle for control deemed it to be. Truth was a convenient myth in a world where the powerful ruled and controlled information and dissent, exactly as it is today among the world’s brutal authoritarian regimes. Perhaps Pilate thought truth unreal. Perhaps just not discoverable by human minds. Either way, it was irrelevant because life was about winning and losing and not about reflecting reality.

Have you ever viewed the truth cynically, as irrelevant?

Have you ever despaired of knowing the truth?

 

Tags: truth, irrelevant, cynically

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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