Message from Scripture: 4/30/2021

 

Our message from Scripture today is Prov. 23:23. “Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.”

 

Vladimir Lenin said, “A lie told often enough becomes truth.”  In our age of revisionism and spin, this proves true all too often.  We are in an age, as Jeremiah said of his own, where people know not how to blush (Jer. 6:15). Like Isaiah, our age is one where good has been substituted for evil and evil for good (Isa. 5:20).  As Paul said, “Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them” (Rom. 1:32). 

 

“What is the problem with lying?” society asks?  For one thing, it destroys trust, which is the foundation that societies and relationships are built on.  When lying is the rule, and not the exception, how can you depend on others, or they on you?  When you make up the rules as you go, what right do you have to get upset when others deal dishonestly with you?  It's just the fruit such a practice bears.  Character is lost, and in the process, so is one's self-respect. Besides this, for the Christian, to reflect the image of Christ, we should live by the truth and speak the truth.

 

Paul wrote, “Therefore, putting away lying, ‘Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,’ for we are members of one another” (Eph. 4:25). Our challenge in such an age as this is to continue to promote and live by the truth of inspired Scripture, not reflect the deceptions of the age in which we live.  We should pray for many who seem bent on self-destruction.  And let us never compromise what God really says is true, what is right and wrong, what leads to eternal life, and what condemns to eternal judgment (Rev. 22:14-15). Today, may our lives reflect the truth in what we say and do as we go out to serve our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. God bless.

 

Robert