For the word of the Lord is right and true; he is faithful in all he does.
- Psalm 33:4
This Tuesday, if you weren’t careful, it was easy to get tricked—it was April Fool’s Day. For corporations with social media accounts, that meant making mock announcements designed to get lots of clicks and comments. For high school seniors, it was a day to unveil their big practical joke on their favorite (or least favorite) teacher. For my 8-year-old son, it meant dropping a piece of ice down my shorts while I did the breakfast dishes.
All in all, April Fool’s Day is a holiday for harmless pranks, silly jokes, and little white lies meant to garner a laugh or two. For one day, up is down and down is up, and anything that seems too good to be true definitely is.
But at the risk of making too much out of too little, April Fool’s Day also gives us reason to ask that famous question Pilate once threw at Jesus: “What is truth?” In a world of propaganda, marketing, and spin, truth is whatever you’re being sold. In a world of tribalism and division, truth is whatever your team says it is. In a world of mind-bending relativism, truth is whatever you can talk yourself into.
But for believers in Jesus, there is objective truth we can rely on, and it comes from the word of the Lord. God is faithful even in a world that is fickle; he is righteous even in a world that is wicked. When all the noise of the culture is deafening, there is peace to be found in his still, small voice.
There are a million voices trying to get your attention today, trying to divert your focus, trying to get you to listen to their story, and many of those stories are as false as the ones you hear on April Fool’s Day. So in your search for truth, don’t turn on the TV or pull out your phone—open God’s Word, and be set free by the truth.
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