Wednesday Reading: 1 Timothy 1:1-7
Key Verse: 1 Timothy 1:4
4 nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies (which provide doubts rather than the nurture of God in faith).
Devotion:
What sort of things do you find make you start to doubt what is going on in your life with God? There are many things that we do not think about which do cast doubt and those things can be simple stories or even finding out who’s who in the lives of those around you. One major stumbling block or should I say doubting block is the hunting down of families in the bible or in our lives. What turns up either distresses us or confuses us because we, in theory, could all trace our lives back to Noah and sons! That would then mean we are all related which then casts doubt in our minds.
When we place our faith and trust in God’s Word we should be accepting it as the absolute truth which means that we are all related. Just because it was OK back then to marry your close relatives (because there was nobody else) does not mean that it is ok now. We have come a long way in life and we need to realise that the more we breed the more we corrupt and mix our genes which means the more likely we are to have faults appear if we marry close relations. The actual explanation is simple but always casts doubt first. That is why we should be avoiding those subjects until we have the confidence that we can seek out the answer before we collapse in a heap!
Doubt is dangerous because it is like a flaw in a design. If it is tried before it is secured then it may well fail. But if we do have time to find out how to protect ourselves from that flaw then we will be able to work our way through the problem. When we begin to realise that Christ wants us to be strong by depending on Him and He wants us to learn through the Holy Spirit, then we have a means to strengthen and make sure our ways before we are tried to destruction. At university we were to try things to their design limits before then trying them to destruction to prove that the design limits were there and could be trusted. God wants us to know how much we can trust in Him. We need to do it and not doubt it!
Points to Ponder:
Do you trust limits?
Are you trusting God’s limits on you?