This is one of the great questions in Scripture: “Whom seekest thou?”
What are you really searching for?
Mary thinks Jesus is the gardener. She still expects to find a dead body.
This reveals a powerful truth: sincerity does not equal truth.
Mary was sincere.
Mary was devoted.
Mary loved Jesus.
Yet she was sincerely wrong about what had happened.
Our world today constantly replaces truth with sincerity. People say:
- “As long as you are sincere.”
- “As long as you believe something.”
But sincerity alone does not make something true.
I remember standing in Union Station in Toronto trying to find the correct train home to Kitchener. Trains were arriving and departing constantly. Imagine someone saying: “Pastor Burns, as long as you are sincere, you will end up at the right destination.”
Life does not work that way.
If I board the wrong train, sincerity will not get me home.
Truth matters.
The same is true spiritually.
Many people are sincere, devoted, religious, and zealous-but they are searching in the wrong place.
Paul described people with:
Yet without truth (Romans 10:2-3, Proverbs 14:12, Acts 26:9).
This is one of the great questions in Scripture: “Whom seekest thou?”
What are you really searching for?
Mary thinks Jesus is the gardener. She still expects to find a dead body.
This reveals a powerful truth: sincerity does not equal truth.
Mary was sincere.
Mary was devoted.
Mary loved Jesus.
Yet she was sincerely wrong about what had happened.
Our world today constantly replaces truth with sincerity. People say:
But sincerity alone does not make something true.
I remember standing in Union Station in Toronto trying to find the correct train home to Kitchener. Trains were arriving and departing constantly. Imagine someone saying: “Pastor Burns, as long as you are sincere, you will end up at the right destination.”
Life does not work that way.
If I board the wrong train, sincerity will not get me home.
Truth matters.
The same is true spiritually.
Many people are sincere, devoted, religious, and zealous-but they are searching in the wrong place.
Paul described people with:
Yet without truth (Romans 10:2-3, Proverbs 14:12, Acts 26:9).