Real for You Now
Read 1 Samuel 23-25
1 Sam 23:7-8 Saul soon learned that David was at Keilah. “Good!” he exclaimed. “We’ve got him now! God has handed him over to me, for he has trapped himself in a walled town!”
SAUL DOESN’T get it. He knows God has anointed David to be the next king of Israel. That is why he so desperately wants to kill David. Yet, Saul thinks God is handing David over to his murderous desires.
It’s easy to avoid God’s truth, isn’t it? We read the Bible and find something that causes us to stop and say, “Uh oh. I do that.” But then we think of ways we can get around the “Uh, oh.”
We can call the Bible “out of date”. It was written so long ago that it certainly can’t be relevant now. Or we can convince ourselves, “God’s not talking to me.” Or we can rationalize, “But God wants me to be happy.” Or as Saul did, we just plain ignore the truth.
But ignoring God’s Word leads to ignorance of the Truth.
The Truth, my friends, is what frees us from sin’s bondage. God’s Word is real and true and relevant and freeing. Face up to the Truth. Then rejoice in a God who loves you so much he invites you to live in his Truth forever.
Pause and Consider: truth may seem inconvenient, but it never is.
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