Truth is what God sees

Heb. 4:13. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. What is truth? Is there really such a thing as “my truth” or “your truth”? This verse makes a stunning statement about God which is very relevant to these questions. First, we learn that God sees every creature all the time. Second, we live our lives before an audience of One—our creator God—which means that everything we have done or has happened to us is known by God. Additionally, He knows every motive of every word and action. Third, we are responsible to God for every word and action. In every circumstance and relationship, He should be our first consideration because He is the first agent. It is with God that we have to give an account. Let’s back pedal to chapter 1, verse 3. Speaking of Jesus, the Holy Spirit said, “And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power.” The Spirit meant the same thing when He inspired John to write, “All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being (John 1:3). Paul wrote to the Colossians in 1:17-18, “He (Jesus) is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.” Nothing happens to us in which God is not the first agent with whom we have to do. He might use other agents to accomplish His purposes, but we need to have a firm grip on the reality that Jesus is first place in everything. So now let’s come back to the question, “What is truth?” The answer from this verse is clear. Jesus is the truth, and whatever He does and sees is the truth. There is no other reality than what He sees. When Jesus says or does something with regards to us, He obviously sees it. It is reality before Him. On the day that He speaks to you through His word (logos) and in the circumstances that He creates in your life, He sees His sacrificial work on the cross for you, the perfecting power of His righteousness lived on your behalf, and the Spirit’s work of faith in your heart which enables you to believe His word and obey it. He judges that your thoughts and intentions of your heart will be an expression of the life of Jesus within you, and it is! That is reality—the truth before God. Therefore, God gets all of the glory for your life. This is how Jesus is faithful over all His house, of which the author spoke in Heb. 3:6. “but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house — whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.” The only reason anyone intentionally lives to love with Jesus is that it is the work of the Spirit of God in them. If He does it; He sees it. The truth is what God sees. If He does and sees it, then it is the reality God knows. Jesus’ work for, in, and through us is our confidence before Him with whom we have to do!