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Notebook Praises 4 What is Truth?

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Today definitions are changed. But God?

The God of the Bible is . . . who He says He is.

There’s no shadow of turning with Him, (James 1:17). Not ever.

God is patient. Kind. Most people think this about God, but are we hungry to know Him?

Familiar words often become blurred, but to chew on the Bible’s account of God’s nature brings a prick to every heart:

God’s love doesn’t envy.

God’s love doesn’t boast. He’s not proud. 

God doesn’t dishonor others.

God’s not selfish. He’s not easily angered.

God does not keep a record of wrongs.

God takes delight in truth, not evil.

God always protects. God always trusts. God always hopes.

God perseveres through everything.

God’s love never fails. (1 Corinthians 13.)

“God is love” 1 John 4:8.

Do we (really) want love?

We must seek the true and living God!

“Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth” John 17:17.

We’ve got a choice to make. To believe or not to believe the Holy Bible proclaimed to be the truth of God.

And who’s Jesus?

From Genesis to Revelation, God speaks a Scarlet thread to tie and hold each Book together.

To open the Bible is to hear God’s heart. His story. His plan. His promises. Everything about life for humankind is written.

What happens when the Book is closed? We can see this, today the truth is what you make it. But is this true?

We believe many things. The human mind, heart, emotion is expressed in words—communication. Words have power.

We follow words . . .

how can we hear the true voice of God?

Faith. ” . . . faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” Romans 10:17.

The testimony of every believer in God is summed up in the first four verses of the Bible. I’ll share an example with my testimony:

God created me. Then my life was dark and empty, (because of sin). “And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters,” (Genesis 1:3). (My body consists of 73% water. My interpretation.)

The Spirit of God was patient to wait as His presence remained and . . .

Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light” Genesis 1:4.

Many testimonies speak of chaotic beginnings, brokenness, darkness, emptiness, pain, and hurt. Then, . . . the Rescuer came.

Chaos turned to light. Old became new.

Do believers have perfect lives after Christ? No way, but directed by the Spirit of God, the Word of God, the Father of Light who delights in His children—yes! Perfectly covered by His blood. Renewed in His love.

Jesus:

“He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God” Revelation 19:13.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men” John 1:1-4.

“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” John 14:6.

“Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near” Revelation 1:1,3.

Truth? Jesus said, “I Am.”

Let the little children sing about “All Things New:”

P.S. Please spend some time talking with the Lord today. This day, may you ask Him in your life and say, “I’ve made Him mine!”

Am I His Child? Can I know?

Promise of rest.

Promise of peace.

If we have no strength to hold on to anything. God promises to hold His children through the storm.

Who is a child of the Lord? Are all people born?

The Bible instructs us to hear. His Word says, to those who believe in His name He gives rights.

He gives the right to become His child: Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—John 1:12.

What name? Who? What’s going on in our spirit? Does it fight and war against God, or is it broken and ready to hear it?

The name?

Jesus.

Who is He? Spend time walking with Him in the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

In today’s world we can listen audibly to the Word of God. Instead of popular music, the choice can be made to hear the music of God’s love.

Ask Him to help you understand. Pray to God. Ask Him to show you Himself in His Word.

Do you think God will answer a prayer like that? Ask, seek, knock. He instructs open, willing hearts:

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened, Matthew 7:7,8.

What’s the Father in heaven like?

The Bible tells us all:

 “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?  Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!  Matthew 7:10,11. 

Ask God. Seek His face.

“What’s the importance of the Bible?” Let God help you know:

But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name, John 20:31.

The Lord Himself will reveal His truth. Ask His Spirit to help you understand. He will show you the Way.

When we believe in Jesus, He comes in and heals, forgives, and lifts our guilt by the power of His blood. The atoning sacrifice Jesus gave on the cross, sets us free from our past and great losses.

The promises of God are our gain. We believe Jesus. We become His child.

I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life1 John 5:13.

This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.  And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him 1 John 5:13-15.1

 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.  We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. 1 John 5: 19,20.

And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. 1 John 5:20

We can know that we are children of God.

God, our Father in heaven, knows that we are healthy and blessed when we walk according to His ways and rest:

We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands. 1 John 2:3.

  But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him:  Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did, 1 John 2:5,6.

So, as a child of God, we must seek to know Him greatly that we might live our lives for Him completely.