Why sober truth? The short answer is for full joy. We live in a "giddy" culture that is glad to pretend it is happy, but never truly is (compare the incidence of depression with the rise in affluence). The best happiness that worldly amusements offer us is the happiness of winning $10 in a round of Bingo. It’s fine as far as it goes, but it just doesn’t go very far.

The happiness promised by credit car purchases and new cars is, at best, fleeting—and followed by further trouble. Just as credit cards come with high interest and cars come with future expenses for gas and tires and maintenance, so, too, the happy platitudes found in all the pretending world about us are sure to be followed by further trouble.

Sober truth is about learning to fix our minds on things as they truly are; it is about our minds learning to value things rightly so that whenever the promise of happiness is made we are capable of deciding whether the end result will be true happiness or further trouble.

We are commanded in Scripture to be “of sound judgment and sober spirit” (1 Peter 4:7), and we are promised through Christ abundant life and eternal joy. This blog is dedicated to bringing these ideas together in the real world, helping us attain such a sober-minded joy in a world that is bent on destroying it.

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