What we truly are is made clear by our contact with these things. Truth is such a touchstone. You can tell a lot about a person by the way he reacts when confronted with reality. What a person does when he stands face to face with truth says volumes about his character and the kind of human being he has chosen to be. If we will not accept truth and adapt ourselves to it, we not only demonstrate our character to be inferior, we doom ourselves to the suffering that inevitably comes from living on the basis of illusion and error.
Truth is what it is, with or without a right response to it on our part.
But our reaction makes all the difference for us. The most telling events in life occur when we are faced with facts that are unpleasant. Each of these confrontations with truth tests us and shows what we are made of. The ultimate truth, of course, is the truth about Jesus Christ. When we choose how to deal with that truth, we are choosing our eternal destiny, simply because that choice is proof of our character at its deepest level.