R-E-S-P-E-C-T and T-R-U-T-H

If you've been watching our culture these days, there seems to be more and more people being disrespectful to each other in order to earn respect for themselves. On the tails of the political season with hours of negative ads tainting the media for months at a time, people felt they had the right to disclose every feeling or impression they have about someone else. Yes, people should know the truth, but sadly when the truth is not reported as much as opinions and biases are called facts, it's hard to sort it all out.
So, what does God say about respect? What does God say about the truth? What does God say about integrity? There are 224 passages that use the word "truth" in the Bible. If even Pontius Pilate asks Jesus "What is truth?" as He stood before his court confessing the truth that He is the King (John 18: 37-38). Obviously, even when the TRUTH is standing right in front of us, we'll deny it.
I am feeling sad today that the Biblical understanding of the TRUTH and RESPECT are lost in our culture. We become defensive and aggressive when we offer our opinions as truth and disrespect each other because of our differences.

In John 5:19-23, Jesus gives us this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him. (NIV)

So, Jesus is the Truth, and all honor and respect is ultimately from the Father. Now that is settled, can we get back to honoring and respecting God?