Truth Custom-Made

April 2026

This was a message for a weekly devotional I write for a youth band. The song was the 77s' "Truth Custom-Made." I also wanted to use Jon Bellion's "Maybe IDK," because it takes the right perspective on not knowing: if you knew tomorrow, you wouldn't need faith, and if you knew His plans, He wouldn't be God. But it's explicit, so I didn't. Though I really wanted to.

"Truth Custom-Made" is about the absence of truth and the desperateness that results. A truth made to order, served to you while reality quietly readjusts around what you'd rather avoid.

Is truth waning in your life? How would you know?

Seems like the evidence points to trust. Do you trust when you don't know? If you knew His plans, would He be God, or would you be?

See, the idea of "my" truth comes from a place of power: we want it. And if we get to avoid discomfort and being wrong by defining right and wrong, we will want to. But we know it's an illusion. Pride is an illusion. The devil is good at smoke and mirrors. Jesus is good at shattering mirrors and vacuuming smoke out of rooms.

So examine and identify: do you create truth custom-made instead of trusting truth already made?