在我兒子沙維爾小的時候，我和他讀過一個虛構的兒童故事，講述了一名五年級的男孩為了跟老師作對，故意給筆編造一個新的名稱，甚至說服他的同學都使用這個新名稱。不久，男孩給了筆新的名稱這消息傳遍整個城鎮。到了最後，全國各地的人都改變了對筆的名稱，因為大家接受了男孩編造出來的事，把這當作是普遍的真理。

縱觀歷史，敗壞的人類為了滿足自己的慾望，接受了不斷改變的各種「真理」，或是符合個人偏好的各種「事實」。但是聖經指出了惟一的真理、惟一的真神，以及惟一的救恩之路，那就是彌賽亞，並且藉著祂「耶和華的榮耀必然顯現」（以賽亞書40章5節）。先知以賽亞很肯定地告訴我們，人和所有的受造之物一樣，都是暫時的、不可靠的、不穩定的（6-7節）。正如他說：「草必枯乾，花必凋殘；惟有我們上帝的話必永遠立定！」（8節）

以賽亞預言彌賽亞將臨的信息，為我們提供了可信靠的基礎、安全的保障，以及堅定的盼望。我們可以相信上帝的話語，因為耶穌就是「道」（約翰福音1章1節），祂是惟一永不改變的真理。

When he was younger, my son Xavier and I read a fictional children’s story about a boy who rebelled against his teacher by referring to a pen by a made-up name. The student convinced his fellow fifth graders to use the new name he created for pens. News about the boy’s replacement word spread through the whole town. Eventually, people across the country changed the way they referred to pens, simply because others accepted one boy’s made-up reality as a universal truth.

Throughout history, flawed human beings have embraced ever-changing versions of truth or personal preferred realities to suit their desires. However, the Bible points to one truth, the one true God, and one way to salvation—the Messiah—through whom “the glory of the Lord will be revealed” (Isaiah 40:5). The prophet Isaiah affirmed that people, like all created things, are temporal, fallible, and unreliable (vv. 6-7). He said, “The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever” (v. 8).

Isaiah’s prophecy of the coming Messiah provides a dependable foundation, a safe refuge, and a secured hope. We can trust God’s Word because Jesus Himself is the Word (John 1:1). Jesus is the Truth who never changes.