Wednesday, January 30, 2008

January 31, 2008

The Bible: Its Origins

Read the Bible through:
AM –
Exodus 24-26 PM – Matthew 17:14-27

The Truth
2 Peter 1:12-15

12 “For this reason I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth."

The bedrock of the American judicial system is truth. From the investigators to the lawyers to the judges or juries, discerning what is true is critical to the integrity of the process. Anything less than the truth could literally be the difference between life and death.

If factual truth is critical to the judicial process, how much more is divine truth critical to understanding life. We want to know: What is God like? Why we are here? How we can overcome sin? How we can live in pleasing service to God? What does the future hold? These questions and many more like them are too important to leave to chance. We need reliable answers.

Every time we read the scripture we handle the holy truth of God. His Word is reliable and trustworthy. We need to learn it, yes. More importantly, we need to establish our lives on it. For the truth of God’s Word can be for us the difference between eternal life and death.

Lord, thank You, for the Word of truth upon which I can build my life.