Thursday, January 20, 2011

Truth is not relative...

There seems to be an emerging thought that truth can be dealt with the same way that we deal with the most common of things.  Like a salad bar....take a little this and leave what we don't want.  I will say that there is not any one person or movement that has the corner on God or all that there is to know about Him, but we have one thing in this world that is our ONLY ground for truth and that is God's word.  Some things can't be disputed.  Now for those who reject God's word, I can only offer a prayer, that by God's grace your darkened heart will be illuminated to this truth.  Fundamentally, there are principles in scripture that we pattern our life after in order to please our Heavenly Father.  I have but one desire in the life which I now live in the flesh and that is to search the scripture and work out what Christ has worked in, without any private interpretation; rightly divided.  We do have liberty in Christ and are to be examples, and are not to lords over God's heritage, but over and over the truth is plainly given.  We are to be like those Berean christians in Acts 17:11...."they RECEIVED the word with all readiness of mind and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so".  Above all, we must have love one for another and give grace to grow.  We all come short but we should all be "strivers" to be like him for the scripture says in I John 4:17  :...because as he is, so are we in this world."  Does this world see Christ in us?  May God help us to just receive the truth and not wrestle it..

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