Shaping Our Society With Truth

Shaping Our Society With Truth
Paolen Tuboi  | Ph.D Research Student

It is inevitable that bombs and guns don’t make a revolution. Rather, it turns a society from bad to worse. The first and most important component in building and revolutionizing our society is not just amending a constitution. The intrinsic cohesion is not just education, foreign policy, or investment, nor technology. These are not the strongest weapons that are required. Indeed, they are all important to govern society, but then what will be the vehicle that will transport us from chaos and dysfunction as a society hijacked by lies and hypocrisy to a society based on truth and love.

Not many years ago, our society was not lamenting getting an appointment for service. However, the opposite is true today. To get a job, one needs to provide a weighty bribe that comes with a high price. Why has our culture and society and character been perverted into corruption? Why do the bureaucrats have to steal poor guys’ money? The most important factor is not so much the massive population, neither illiteracy nor even the lack of financial resources.

The Late Dr. People’s President APJ Abdul Kalam constantly talked about developing the nation with higher education and advancing technology. Sadly, nobody asked what kind of education? The right education is essential to revolutionizing the degenerated nation and society. The communist regime of the Soviet Union under the governance of Stalin achieved its highest goal in making the nation literate. That, however, doesn’t pave the way for them to be preserved from corruption, brutality, and hostility. The danger arises when education is hijacked by half-truths - Mr. Lie.

Our society with hundreds of schools is no different from the Communists, at least in its downgraded spirituality. Schools in villages are no longer modeling the upright future leaders. Free education specified by the government becomes the belly builder for the big goons, the so-called leaders- whom I named ‘Lamkai dei mihem ngailu lou.’ It is not about having schools but teaching the younger generation the truth.

Serving the younger generation with moral and character formation will bring freedom from not a cashless society, but with a cash-truth society, but absolutely not by means of an unfair education. When a society loves to steal, loves to tell lies, they violate the very nature of their Creator - the founder of the society. Not only do they violate the very nature of the Lawgiver, but this also results in the immediate backwardness of our society. When the youngsters learn corruption in the early stages of their education, they bring it with them into their administration services and the common people have to pay an enormous bribe.

The responsibility of a well-informed mind with things such as, learning not to tell lies, not to covet, and not to bribe originates first within the family. The diligent seekers of truth will help our society to revolutionize the present state of our chaotic situation. This is not just to letting the youngsters go to schools and engage with new technologies, but equipping them with higher education with higher standards and moral values. This principle comes, not in recent times, but in the olden days when the Creator God commanded the corrupt society (Israelites) to be a fruitful society and a blessed nation by immersing themselves in the truth of God’s Word.

To avoid the pathos of our present society is to train every citizen to be engineers in building our homes, schools, and society with ‘The Truth’ that is the undivided textbook of the creator - The Bible. That’s where the wisdom for governing society originates. Science textbooks don’t teach us ‘THE TRUTH; they give us information. But ‘The Truth’ emanates character formation not corruption for the Giver of ‘The Truth’ is ‘Truth.’ As receivers of God’s truth, let us allow Jesus to become, not only our Savior but Lord of our lives. Otherwise, corrupted ideologies and doctrines will enslave our society into destruction.