Friday Reading: Deuteronomy 4:29-31
Key Verse: Deuteronomy 4:31
31 For Jehovah your God is a merciful God; He will not forsake you, nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.
Devotion:
We could look in many places throughout our bibles to bring up the truth that God’s Word continue to remain the absolute truth over all time; but instead I have gone back to some of the very early record written thousands of years ago and passed down faithfully from generation to generation. Is it any wonder to see that these words tell us the same story as words a few hundred years before Christ and the same as Jesus continued to teach us? God has done so many things in the face of adversity, disbelief and downright hatred from the very people that He has called His own; and throughout all of those things has been a constant stream of mercy from His side as He continues to lift up the truth in the hopes that we will eventually grasp it and hold on to it.
God has continued to uphold the absolute truth so that He can demonstrate that it will never change and that we can depend on it because of that fact. God has upheld His Word throughout history and continues to do so in this modern world and will continue to do so far into the future. He made promises to people and kept them. Those promises are recorded in history as well as in our bibles so that we can be sure that they are the truth.
And what does He want out of this? Just for us to believe in that truth with our whole hearts and souls. He wants us to know that that truth is worth everything and that we should depend on it always. What an awesome fact that we can know the truth just because He has given it to us freely. God wants our love because He loved us from the beginning. He continues to show us His love throughout time and will continue throughout eternity – all we need to do is to believe in that truth.
Points to Ponder:
How much of history and science can we depend on?
Are you depending on God’s Truth?