God’s Truth, Not Yours
Romans 3:4 Amplified Bible (AMP)
4 By no means! Let God be found true though every human being
is false and a liar, as it is written, That You may be justified and
shown to be upright in what You say, and prevail when You are judged [by sinful
men].
Numbers 23:19 Amplified Bible (AMP)
19 God is not a man, that He
should tell or act a lie, neither the son of man, that He should feel
repentance or compunction [for what He has promised]. Has He said and
shall He not do it? Or has He spoken and shall He not make it good?
I know it is
often said that you can judge a person by the fruit that they bare. You can judge a person that says that they
hear from God by the manifestation of the words they speak. How often have you thought you heard from God
on and issue only to become frustrated when things did not turn out the way you
thought you heard it? How many times
have people come up to you and professed
that they prayed on a particular subject and heard from God only to find that
the words that they speak, or have sworn came from God cannot be found in the
hallowed pages of God’s words to us? How many times have you seen people act not
according to God’s word and say well God knows my heart?
All too often it
is our flesh that is getting in the way of the truth. We despise pain and discomfort and instead of
doing what it says in 2 Timothy 2:3-4, “Take [with me] your share of the
hardships and suffering [which you are called to endure] as a good
(first-class) soldier of Christ Jesus. 4 No
soldier when in service gets entangled in the enterprises of [civilian] life;
his aim is to satisfy and please the one who enlisted him.” We entangle
ourselves in the “enterprise of civilian life,” and feed our flesh instead of
adhering to the Spirit of God. One of
the saddest reflections to our witness and our faithfulness to God is that we
would rather attempt to make Him out to be a liar to get what we want than to
face the truth that we are not being honest and are not hearing from God as we
profess. Could It be just maybe we have
not sought God, but sought the wisdom of man or our mind instead. My mother used to tell me as I became a young
adult and experience certain things that were not altogether lovely, that there
is my truth, the other persons truth and the real truth (which is what God
knows to be the truth of who we are, what we have done and how we have acted
and behaved). My Grandmother used to say
to us you better know God for yourself, as I grew through many experiencing in
the church and with individuals speaking on behalf of God, I have found out
exactly what she meant, that everyone that speaks for God is not speaking His
truth, or is speaking His word. You see I have learned that we must try the
spirit by the spirit and see if it is of God.
The fruit is either God’s or its not, the words either line up with the
word and will of God as it concerns how He has asked us to live and treat one
another or it doesn’t.
You see we have
a form of truth that does not always line up with God’s truth, that’s why it is
so important to know what God’s word says and to know His spirit for yourself. Even those of us who have become good at
twisting the Word of God for our agenda and to satisfy our flesh, that does not
make the intent of our words true nor the application of God’s word truth. It is vital for us to submit ourselves to God
and to come into alignment with who He is so that we are not conjuring up a
brand of “our truth” that does not match His truth. If we abide in Him, then by all means He will
abide in us, and so will His truth!
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