John 18:33-40

John 18:33-40 
English Standard Version (ESV)

  Pilate asks the question that we all spend our lives answering -- What is truth?
  We have a plethora of options.  A popular one at the moment is to say that there is no truth, but that's just another truth, isn't it?  Someone who claims that all truths are valid is claiming a truth in the same way as anyone else, whether they would agree to that or not.
  Other options are to believe that power is truth, or perhaps influence, given how much sway social media has in the world today.  Money has always been a popular truth.
  What is the fundamental truth around which you will build your life?
  Jesus offers us truth, but it's not something to be possessed.  If it were, we could lose it.  Holding the truth in the palm of your hand only works as long as you have the strength to hold your fingers around it, and I wouldn't recommend building your life around something that fits in your hand anyway.
  The truth that Jesus offers us is a person, a relationship, a love that comes from outside ourselves and exists in eternity, but the love is so deep that the person enters into our world and offers us a pathway that leads outside of ourselves and into a deeper relationship, a deeper love, than we can ever imagine.  That relationship was severed for a time, but a selfless act of sacrifice allows the rift to be healed, and we have a pathway back to our Creator, one who knows us intimately and has created us for joy beyond what we can begin to imagine in this time and place.  Jesus does not claim that this relationship will always be easy in this life, and Jesus shows us the cost, but promises us that this truth, this eternal truth, goes beyond the grave.  It speaks the language of the depths of our hearts, of redemption and forgiveness and grace.
  I am the way, the truth and the life.