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Your word is Truth (John 17:17)

Scripture of the Day: John 17:17

...Your word is truth

I think I have mentioned this before, but to reiterate - I spent most of my life not believing that Truth existed. In fact, my favorite Sociology professor in college used to tell us that there was no "truth" with a capital T. My how things have changed! I feel like God is hitting me over the head with this verse (which actually is my 3.5 year olds memory verse of the week). This past weekend I was lucky enough to attend a Beth Moore conference and what I most took out of it is that the Word is important. And in order for that word to really impact you, you have to believe that it is True!

The Bible tells us that there is indeed Truth. The word of God is truth. What he says, he means. What he promises, he fulfills. What he makes a covenant to do, will be done. The Word also applies to us. What he tells us we should do...we should do! This "doing" goes across many levels - it tells us how we should act, how we should respond to things, how we should love, how we should forgive - how we should do just about everything!

The only way I know of to learn more of God's Truth is to spend time in it. Read the bible. Apply it to your life. Pray for your mind to be opened and your heart to understand. Be open to what God is trying to teach you. A great point from the conference this weekend that I walked away with is that you cannot ride on the coattails of someone else's faith. You need your own. God has things in store for you, through you, not through someone else. Instead of asking others to pray...pray! Instead of depending on others to be Jesus' body to the world...join it! Instead of just opening your Bible on Sunday morning, read it during the week to see what message God has for you.

In closing, I am sharing a prayer I wrote on the front page of my bible. It is from an email devotional I signed up for earlier this year and I have no idea who wrote it or where it came from, as I didn't write it down!

Closing prayer:

Almighty, eternal and merciful God, whose word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path, open and illuminate our minds, that we may purely and perfectly understand your word and that our lives may be conformed to what we have rightly understood, that in nothing we may be displeasing unto your majesty, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.






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