Hall of Mirrors

The hall of mirrors. Remember those? Mirrors that curved and waved and reflected distorted images of yourself … perhaps with an extended body but shortened legs, or an elongated head or stretched neck. There was a recognisable resemblance but not a true image.

If anything is true, Paul wrote, think about that.

Jesus stood before Pilate, who questioned him. What is truth? As Pilate gazed at Jesus, perhaps the details of his personal circumstances, the lens of the political climate, the prejudice of cultural norms, distorted the Truth who stood before him. He couldn’t see correctly. The Truth stood before him, and he couldn’t see it!

Today as in no other day we are fed fake news in our newsfeeds, on our radios and tellies, from newspapers and out of the mouths of politicians and sales people. We need to remain vigilant, to be alert to what we are believing and to measure it all against the touchstone of Jesus, who is Truth.

It seems to me that Paul’s directions lead me to conclude that only Jesus is to be trusted as true. Most of the other ‘truths’ out there reflect a hall of mirrors.

I don’t want to live a scared life, though, reluctant to believe anything for fear it is a distortion of fact, and so this morning I ask Jesus to fill me again with his Holy Spirit, that he will inform my mind and guide my understanding and reactions.