Devotional for Friday, July 28, 2017
“Loving The Truth of Our Lord”
by Dona Hake
Today I want to share with you about loving the truth. The Word is truth and it is light to our souls. God’s Word, His truth has been so freely given to us. It will strengthen, guide, and lift up our souls. On the other hand the lies of the devil will pull us down, and lead us into wrong paths. The devil loves to lie to us in order to create confusion and defeat in our lives. God is light and in Him there is no darkness, there never was darkness in our Lord, and there never will be. Oh that we would be quick to discern light from dark in our lives. May we learn to hate what God hates and love what He loves. In my walk as a believer I have found that the degree that I love His truth will also be the degree that I hate and despise the lies of our enemy. The more I love His Word, the more discerning I will be in all areas of my life. It is as one compromises the truth in their life that they will begin to accept and enter into compromise rather than reject the lies of the devil.
In Ecclesiastes 3 the writer speaks of an appointed time to love and an appointed time to hate. Know this…there are things that God hates, and because He hates certain things, we too should hate those things. We need to hate anything that could potentially pull us away from His perfect will.
Today I want to talk about lying and falsehood. God desires that our hearts be sold out completely and committed to His Word. May we never ever think that we can pick and choose when we are going to walk in truth. May our hearts desire to know that we are saturated in His Word. May we be determined to walk in a way in which we never waver but stay true to every precept He has given us to live by. May we never entertain thoughts of permitting ourselves to lie or live in the realm of being a pretender. Falsehood is lack of conformity to truth or fact. When we live to serve our Lord in truth our spirit will cause us to reject darkness and the lies of our enemy.
Psalm 119:163 (CEB)
“I hate, I absolutely despise, what is false,
but I’m in love with your Instruction.”
“I hate, I absolutely despise, what is false,
but I’m in love with your Instruction.”
Psalm 119:163 Good News Translation
“I hate and detest all lies,
but I love your law.”
Today Lord we ask that You would give us discerning hearts for we well know that the devil can come as an Angel of Light. He roams and seeks ways to devour us, therefore we ask that You help us be watchful over our souls. Help us to be discerning. We thank You Lord that Your grace is able to keep us strong and deliberate in our walk. We ask that Your Word would grow deeper and deeper within us as we proclaim that we love Your law with all of our hearts. In Jesus Name! Amen.