What Is Truth?
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Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6).
Full Reservoirs Avert Drought
Raging Storm Closes Businesses, Economy Threatened
How can both headlines be true? When concerned merely with weather reports, we know that a map is crucial. Springtime can indeed include warm temperatures and blanketing snow; a study of the map tells us what to expect in any given place.
What about when seemingly conflicting reports have far more consequence? Which experts do we believe when a failing economy threatens our wellbeing but some say we must spend more? Without a solid basis of truth, we can easily lose hope. We are not sure who or what to trust and so we waver.
This is never more true than in our relationship with God. Some people say He is a myth, an idea conjured up to provide comfort in dire circumstances. In fact, circumstances themselves can cloud our understanding of God. When grave illness unexpectedly strikes, when a child dies, when a marriage ends, when a job is lost and foreclosure looms, how can we be sure that God loves us?
Truth can be merely factual until it invades our lives in experiential ways. A couple long hoping for a child can be told by the doctor that they are pregnant. They believe the words to be true based on scientific tests and the expertise of the doctor who relates the facts. But then comes the first sonogram, a believable picture of the facts. Desire and hope are replaced by unbounded joy.
How often we hurriedly read the Bible and even nod in affirmation of facts about God but do not take sufficient time to make those facts produce change in our lives. Our heads are full but our hearts are often empty. We can quote chapter and verse but not answer the question, “What did God say to me today?”
Lord, forgive me for being satisfied with only facts. Soften my mind and heart so that truth is indelibly printed within me and thus lived out before others.
Questions: What did God say to you today? Are the facts that you read in the Bible making a difference in your every day living?
About the Author Marilyn Ehle
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Marilyn E., thank you for the devotional. I have found myself wavering as of late and my zeal, want, desire is not present. it came to my heart that I need to realize that this trial will not last. but it’s disturbing because I have felt within the Lord’s presence before and now? Catherine, may I say hello and if I may let you know that I too, am feeling exactly what you wrote.
”Fear and discouragement are subject to our will. Through faith in God, we can rule over them, not THEM OVER US.”-Dr. C. Stanley
thank you
Thank you Catherine for sharing your faith in God. How sometimes you feel like it is so hard to let go and let God bring you up another level in your walk with Him. I have experienced a very close relationship with Our Heavenly Father. But I also know during that time I spent a lot of time in His Word, prayer and mediatating on Him. God would speak to me through visions and through listening to him. I grew Spiritualy a lot during that time. But lately I feel lazy about spending that kind of quality time. I thank God for is presence each day and ask Him to please remember those times that I spent with Him in quiet times. I also ask God not to ever take His presence from me while I am trying to find that same quailty time I once had. I need a whole heap of desire and hunger like I used to have. I know when I read scripture or worship God at church or hear a spiritual song I am moved. The Holy Spirit stirs inside me and I long to have that same kind of relationship I once had. I hope I will get back on that Spiritual track of grabing hold of Christ’s hand and let Him lead me in my daily life in ways that will brilng honor and glory to Him. I know God is always with me and I am so very thankful for that.. Amen and Amen
How true that there are far too many days that God’s Word, either thru the scriptures or people, pass through my life more as a breeze than living water. My prayer lately is that the Lord help me grow in a closer relationship with Him, that He show himself to me so that I know what His will is for me daily…and yet the map goes unstudied. Read briefly maybe, but not enough, it is as if I cut the Lord off in mid-sentence…saying with my head, “Yes Lord I want to hear from u” and with my heart, “This is too much work, isn’t there a miracle you could bless me with that will change my heart faster!” Yes the Lord has given me proof of His existence, my need for salvation and the need to have Him present in all parts of my life…I just feel so lazy about the growth sometimes…Lord, I pray that your Holy Spirit will fill me with an all consuming fire for you…for your companionship and light in all that I do…let me learn from you, my truest teacher. Amen
Thank you for this devotional. I was reminded of my tears when my 2nd daughter’s heartbeat registered with the machine at the nurse’s office. She was still too small for us to hear her, but after two miscarriages and at the age of 44, the words of the nurse, “the heartbeat registered” were the most beautiful and touching ones I’d ever heard.
I deal daily with people who complain about my faith and feel no compunction in pasing on their own belief, that God is a myth, a fabrication for the sake of consolation. There’s nothing I can say except what’s happened to me over the years, and the proof of my experience is only convincing to me. But I am so grateful for those who helped me to find this proof on my own.