The Verse of the Day

-July 21, 2020-

Good morning, happy Tuesday,

-Choosing God’s Truth In A World Of Falsehood-

“I have chosen the way of truth; Your judgments I have laid before me.”

(Psalm 119:30).

With God there is absolute truth. He is the truth, He tells the truth, and His Word is truth. The Psalmist said, “I have chosen the way of truth…” As believers this is a choice we must make every day. We have to cling to God’s truth no matter what the world says, no matter what the news says.

Jesus said in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” The Bible is God’s truth we have to live by. Jesus in His High Priestly Prayer asked the Father, “Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.” When we read the Scriptures, we are reading God’s truth.

The Psalmist continues, “Your judgments I have laid before me.” We are so blessed to have the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. The NT explains and fulfills the OT, and the OT helps us understand the NT. Paul tells us the value of the OT in Romans 15:4, “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.”

The devil is the opposite. He is the source of all lies and falsehoods. Jesus described the devil perfectly in John 8:44, “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.” The world accepts lying as part of life, even calling certain lies as “white lies,” trying to justify themselves.

Let us then like the Psalmist choose God’s truth; to be truthful in what we say and do, and obey the truth of God’s Word. When we share God’s Word with others, we are sharing the truth. May we reject all lies and falsehoods, standing in the truth, by the truth, and for the truth.

Have a blessed day in God’s truth. Stay safe and healthy.

Dean