Maybe you’re a New-Year’s-resolutions-type person. Maybe (like me) you’re not. Either way, I would like to encourage this, for all of us, for today and for 2023 and for the rest of our days:
Pursue Truth.
Read the Bible.
Study the Bible.
This is where Truth is found.
Spend time and effort to learn and understand, in context, what the Bible says. Context is very, very important! The context of the verse, the paragraph, the section, the book, the testament, the whole Bible. All of it matters. Each word was written in a specific context, and has specific meaning! And meanings can change dramatically based on the context. We can easily be fooled by things taken out of context – not just in the Bible, but most importantly in the Bible!
Find out what the overarching theme is. The Bible is 66 different books, authored by God Himself and written by roughly 40 different men across roughly 1500 years…but there is a unified, overarching theme from beginning to end.
And it is Truth, and it is of utmost importance.
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Jesus, praying to the Father about His followers: “Sanctify them in the truth; Your Word is truth.” John 17:17 ESV
“How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” Psalm 119:103-105 ESV
“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.”
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV
“The law of the Lord is perfect,
reviving the soul;
the testimony of the Lord is sure,
making wise the simple;
the precepts of the Lord are right,
rejoicing the heart;
the commandment of the Lord is pure,
enlightening the eyes;
the fear of the Lord is clean,
enduring forever;
the rules of the Lord are true,
and righteous altogether.
More to be desired are they than gold,
even much fine gold;
sweeter also than honey
and drippings of the honeycomb.
Moreover, by them is your servant warned;
in keeping them there is great reward.” Psalm 19:7-11 ESV
Pursue Truth.
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