Thursday Reading: 1 Corinthians 9:19
Key Verse: 1 Corinthians 9:19
19 For though I am free from all, yet I have made myself servant to all, so that I might gain the more.
Devotion:
When we do recognise the truth we then try to cling to that truth for all that it is worth. Sometimes we only hear part of the truth and because of that we falter in that truth and even turn our backs on it because we lack a fuller understanding of it. The same is true about God’s Word, our bibles. If we know a little of it we try to uphold what we know but when someone comes along that is more knowledgeable we tend to start to agree with them because they seem to know more; it does not matter that their truth does not quite line up with ours because they seem to know more and we have doubt in our own knowledge. When we then start to learn the actual truth we can find out whether we have been walking down the wrong road or believing someone who has not been telling us the whole truth.
God’s Word alone is going to set us free from all the lies and deceit that we have in this world. As long as we are going to hold fast to that single truth then we can know that we will always be able to decipher fact from fiction when we are faced with the choice. God’s Word will not teach you how to be the best at everything nor will it teach you how to make money. What it will teach you is all that God wants you to know about living your life for Him and with Him. It will set you free from the clutches of the world and from the deceit that man spreads to try and discourage you from following that truth. Man wants to learn how to make money and make himself successful and how to promote himself. God wants you to promote Him.
That is the difference between this world and the truth. If we want to be true to ourselves, others and God then we have to be willing to be servants of God’s Word, servants of God and also to be willing to be servants for man (not of man!). If we are willing to teach others through example and promote the truth as God has given it to us then we are showing that we are willing servants of God. That act alone will gain us more than any man could give us.
Points to Ponder:
Are you waiting for the winning formula?
Are you following the truth yet?
