Saturday Reading: John 8:37-40
Key Verse: John 8:40
40 But now you seek to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth which I have heard beside God; this Abraham did not do.
Devotion:
We like to think that we are doing the right thing because we like to think we are following the rules of great people… but that just does not cut it with God. God wants us to know that we are doing the right thing, not because we are following great men but because we are following His Word. Jesus was able to quite eloquently show the Jews that they had corrupted God’s Word and that they were in fact following their own will rather than the Word of God that they said they were.
It is one thing to read a section of scripture and take from it what you would like to hear, but an entirely different thing to take God’s Word and get from it what He wanted you to get in the beginning. God’s Word is not changing with the times. It has never changed and it will never change. We are the ones who continue to change and continue to make our own minds up about what we think God’s Word should say to us! Just because most of the people are saying one thing does not necessarily make it right. Yes there is wisdom in listening to what most people think or know about a subject because we can learn a lot in that way. But just hearing something because that is what we would like to hear is not right in any books!
God continues to lay His Word out in front of our lives, spelling out each step for us as we go. It does not mean that it is all in black and white and we don’t have a choice. God, instead, tells us what He would like and then gives us the option of either following His will or ignoring it. Unfortunately so many more people seem to choose to ignore those precious words instead of following them. That gives us a harder task to try and give out the truth because so many more people have heard nothing but corrupt things for most of their lives. God’s Word itself is not corrupt. Man has corrupted it in many guises, some of which are world religions…
Points to Ponder:
Do you want the truth?
Are you willing to hear the truth?