Not Me

For years, The Family Circus comic strip has had a character that does everything the children don’t want to get in trouble for: Not Me. “Who got the toys out?” “Who drew on my papers?” The answer was always, “Not Me.”

While reading the Sunday comics, I saw a new one that said it differently. The strip was just one panel. Someone had broken a window, and a lamp lay broken on the floor where it had fallen off the end table. The mother is looking at the son questioningly. The son replied, “Do you want “The” truth or “Me” truth?” “Me” truth is what we tell to make us look better, not guilty, good.

I have a friend who married a man she thought would be a good role model for her teenage children. He told her how helpful he was. He told her about all the things he had built. How talented he was with his hands. After they married, she discovered that he couldn’t do any of the things he had told her. Everything he had claimed had been done by his brother. He had told her his “Me” truth.

The world is full of “Me” truths. Watch the news. One political party tells its “Me” truth, and so does the other. Each is contradictory to the other. How can both be true?

There is only one truth. Jesus. “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life.

No man cometh unto the Father but by me.” John 14:6 - Jesus, God, Truth.

John 18:37 says, “To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I shall bear witness unto the truth. Everyone that is of the truth heareth my voice.”

The word truth is in 222 passages in the KJV of the Bible. In the book of John, it is used 25 times—all relating to Christ. But Jesus is not the only truth. The whole Word is Truth.

Psalms 1:1-2 tells us that “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful” (The “Me” truth) But his delight is in the law of the Lord: and in his law doth he meditates day and night.” (“THE” Truth). Verse 3 goes on to tell us that the one who meditates on “THE” Truth is “like a tree planted by the rivers of water (River of Life), that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.”

The Bible doesn’t just tell us about “THE” Truth. It also tells us about the “Me” truth. Psalms 1 tells us about the ungodly “Me” truth. Verses 4-6 tell us, “The ungodly are not so, but are like chaff which the wind driveth away. 5. Therefore, the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”

Basically - “THE” Truth will stand, but the “ME” truth will be blown away and die.