What is Truth?

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
-1 John 5.19-20

The dominating view of living a good life in today's society is the approach of "do what makes you happy". Whatever that means. It is open to interpretation. It's the lazy approach, I think, because it creates one's own philosophy of living a good life according to one's own tastes and emotions. "Good" is defined by whom? Each person would have his/her own definition of good morals and behavior. It is a shape-shifting view that doesn't follow truth that is given to us in Scripture.

Many people would call themselves Christians, and yet the decisions they make in life are contradictory to what we are taught in Scripture. There are so many warnings in the New Testament, especially in Paul's letters, about the false teachings out there, which includes what we are fed by today's culture. It is clear from Paul's letters that in the first century that was an issue just like it is in the twenty-first century. 

While much of what we see in this world is shielded by culture as acceptable, if we know what the Bible says on matters in question, we will be able to discern what is right and true, and what is not. Knowing, reading, meditating, re-reading the Bible is the way to set our hearts and minds on the way God calls us to live.