Daily devotion – the truth
Isa 5:20
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Is there black and white, or is everything always grey? Are there absolutes, is there truth, or is truth something that we each make up and so we can have our own truths?
Such thinking and discussion has now found its way into the Church and coming from many modern day pulpits.
People are not ‘game’ to speak the truth on matters, to call something untrue, or to say there are absolutes.
Firstly, let us know that God’s Word the Bible – we are to take literal and seriously!
It is after all the Word of God!
But what I am finding an additional concern today is that in regard to Bible prophecy, people now just throw out to the congregation, all the flavours of the ice-cream and let the people sort through the matter without any clarity or biblical direction.
On matters such as the Rapture, the Tribulation, the Second Coming of Jesus, and the future of the nation of Israel.
I love what Jesus said about the things that the prophet Daniel spoke about. Things so precise and accurate that people said there was no way that these could have been made known to Daniel so many years before they occurred – Jesus said, Mat 24:15 “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand),
Jesus says Daniel is a prophet of God!
That means everything that Daniel wrote about is true!
There is no ambiguity here.
There are two reasons why many pulpits are so ‘fluid’ in their lack of pronouncing God’s Word as being absolute and trustworthy:
1. The preachers just don’t know the Word of God and therefore the congregation is starved of its truth.
2. Secondly, Satan who is the Father of all lies, started this whole ‘grey’ area back in the book of Genesis – And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” Genesis 3:1.
What you hold in your hands is the very Word of God and it is straight and true – 2Ti 3:16 ¶All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
Jude warned us that in the Last Days perverse men would creep into Church and bring doubt and mistruths along with them – Jude 1:12 These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots;
Jude 1:13 raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
Notice that, …..clouds without water…autumn trees without fruit!
Today, open your Bible with confidence and know that what you are reading is the truth that will set you free!