This is the semester’s theme as stated by the chaplaincy during the first Tuesday chapel of the semester last month. As I listened carefully to the quotation of verses from the scripture my mind wondered, What truth? Whose truth? Surely such a word put in today’s contemporary world has lost meaning! Don’t get me wrong. The media reflects the society thus much of the content transmitted in our airwaves no matter how ‘dirty’ and outright lies is received as simply put ‘bearable’. Truth to me has ceased meaning. Sadly, today’s generation especially teens from 13-19 years have grown up in ‘MTV generation’ learning their values, attitudes from the same media. Walt Mueller in his book, Understanding Today’s Youth Culture says ‘The greatest power of the mass media is the power to define reality and therefore shape who our kids become’.
The other day I had a chat with some friends and some would say that Truth is relative. Okay. So I probed one of them further and he went on to give his experience where he sought for advice from his parents who replied with ‘don’t they teach you things in school?’. From it I gathered that indeed we are suffering from a generational crisis. We live in so busy caught up world that our Christian values have been blurred. Frankly speaking if we were living in some of the asian countries where Christian persecution is still there(though not publicly declared),how many of us would confess to the truth of the gospel? Very few I guess.
The back of all events, situations and dilemmas we find ourselves in today’s cosmopolitan 21st century lifestyle lies in the word of God-The Bible, ‘a book according to some has lost touch with time.’
I challenged myself and hope that other congregants were too on the need to walk the talk-in truth. Its easy for us to look at our work colleagues, students, faculty, staff and even management and see ‘less honesty’ but at the end of the day its about us as individuals to stand for the truth. Paul says in his letter to Timothy i.e. 2nd Timothy 2:15‘Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to
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