Facts, Our Truth, and God’s Truth
(How the temporary can be twisted, but the unshaken remains)
There are three layers in the world’s conversation: facts, our truth, and God’s truth. Facts can be counted, measured, and paraded as proof. Our truth is what we perceive, accept, and live by — shaped by our experiences, wounds, culture, and desires. God’s truth is revealed in Jesus Christ — unchanging, unshakable, and not subject to our vote.
1. Facts — The Shifting Ground
Facts are pieces of information about what is, or what was. They can be accurate in the moment, yet incomplete in the whole. They can be selected, framed, and used to accuse or defend. The serpent in Eden used a fact — “Did God really say…?” (Genesis 3:1) — but twisted it to plant doubt. The Pharisees used facts about the Law to condemn the woman caught in adultery (John 8:4–5), yet they stood blind to the greater truth standing before them.
Isaiah 59:14–15 says:
“So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter. Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey.”
Facts can be bent to serve the agenda of the moment. They are not lies — but they are not the whole.
2. Our Truth — The Subjective Lens
Our truth is what we believe to be true based on our perspective, experience, and willingness to accept certain realities. It can be sincere — and still be wrong. Proverbs 14:12 warns:
“There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.”
Job’s friends thought they were speaking truth about God, but the Lord said, “You have not spoken the truth about me” (Job 42:7). Our truth can be reactive, shaped by pain or pride, and it can drift far from God’s truth without us realizing it.
3. God’s Truth — The Unshakable Foundation
God’s truth is not a perspective — it is reality as He defines it. It is revealed in His Word and embodied in His Son: John 14:6 —
“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
It is enduring: Isaiah 40:8 —
“The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.”
It is unchanging: Hebrews 13:8 —
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”
Our truth and God’s truth are not always mutual. When they collide, only one will stand — and it will not be ours.
4. The Collision — When All Truth is Revealed
Facts can be manipulated. Our truth can be mistaken. But God’s truth will be unveiled in full: Luke 8:17 —
“For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.”
On that day, every false narrative will collapse, and nothing will be able to stand against what God has revealed.
The Call
Do not anchor your life in weaponized facts or in the shifting sands of your own truth. Anchor yourself in the truth that cannot be manipulated — the truth that is Christ Himself. John 8:32 —
“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
