Thursday Reading: 1 John 4:1-3
Key Verse: 1 John 4:2
2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God;
Devotion:
It is hard to identify just who your friends and enemies are sometimes; you get all manner of people around you all seemingly promising you a fruitful and joyous future through what they seem to know or say they know. The proof comes down to finding out the hard way which of those promising will stand the test of time and which one of them will break down or be shattered by those broken promises or deceit.
I have always been a person who does not like to ever think that anyone else could be to blame – I seem to have lived my life thinking that I could be taken account for everything that has happened in my life. The actual truth is that the world around us is a very corrupt place that pretends to be good and clean and honest. It just is not so! Who would have believed that it would take me 50 years to figure that one out!
If we want to be able to separate the honest and good from the evil and deceitful then we have got to have something that we can compare things against. That comparison or yard stick has got to be absolute and cannot fail in itself. And if you haven’t realised yet that God’s Word is that yard stick then it’s about time you took it back as the truth and kept it as the core truth that you can and must compare the world against. When you take whatever you think is good in this world and compare it against God’s Word then you will find the truth.
Yes it is scary to find out so much is not what it seems but it is so rewarding and conclusive to find out that God’s Word stands no matter what!
Points to Ponder:
How much of your life do you like?
How much of your life agrees with God’s Word?