1 Timothy 2:3b-4, and 7–”…God our Savior…wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. … And for this purpose I was appointed a herald and an apostle—I am telling the truth, I am not lying—and a teacher of the true faith to the Gentiles.”

With all of the conflicting coverage on the Presidential candidates, including their running mates, I was reminded of the old saying: “How can you know if a politician is lying?  His (or her) lips are moving!”

In our world today, we find people still struggling with the question Pilate asked the one on trial before him: “What is Truth?”  There are those who deny absolute truth by saying “you have your truth and I have mine.”

In this context it is somewhat ironic that the expression “If the truth be told” is still fairly common in our culture. We use it to fill people in on a situation so that they have the whole story. Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish truth from fiction, truth from half-truths, truth from “white lies.” Sometimes people don’t want the truth to be told. But people long for and need the truth in their lives. And as followers of Jesus, we have it, the truth that needs to be told.

Jesus said about Himself, “I am the way and the truth and the life.” (John 14:6). This is the truth everyone needs to know.

John 8:31–32 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Jesus was and remained the truth, even in the midst of all the lies that were told about Him. And the truth took Him to the cross, where He died to establish the truth once and for all that God is our Savior, and that He does want “all men to be saved.” His death with your sins on Him and in Him saves you from the death you truthfully deserve.

God does not want you to keep this truth to yourself. If the truth is going to be told, you and I are the ones who have to do it! And if the truth be told, what God wants for all people will happen. “God our Savior … wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.” That sets the vision for your mission and purpose in life. If the truth of the Gospel be told, people will come to believe in the truth, because the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, will bring them to faith.