Of This I'm Sure

"The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever."    (Isaiah 40:8 NASB)

My read-through-the-Bible plan has me reading in Isaiah right now.  As I read this verse this morning, I had to pause and be thankful.

We're living in a world where everything is changing.  Our world no longer recognizes absolutes.  Truth, in our culture, is an elusive concept.  And that's true in the little things as well as in the bigger things.

If you have lived as long as I have, then you've been told that eggs are good for you, then that eggs are bad for you, and now eggs are good for you again.  Milk is good for you, but it's bad for you.  Eat wheat; don't eat wheat.  Coffee is bad for you; coffee causes cancer; coffee is good for you and prevents certain diseases.  Which is it?  Where is the truth? 

As for the coffee, I'm going to drink it no matter what! About the other things, I'm as confused as the rest of you.

It's difficult to navigate our way through the ever-changing science and maintain our physical health.  We're confused.  We don't know who or what to believe.

The culture and the government continue to attempt to alter our perception of other standards as well.  Standards that have been recognized as absolute for millennia are now being tossed aside as obsolete.

Because this is true, because we live in a culture that no longer recognizes the authority of the Word of God, it is more important than ever that we know what we believe.  That we know Whom we believe.  It is more important than ever that we not only believe in God, but that we believe God.  It is more important than ever that we saturate ourselves in the Truth.  That we be disciplined to spend time in the Word of God. 

And it is more important than ever that we stand firm for Truth.

There are many things in this life that I am unsure of.  But of this I am sure:

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever."  (Hebrews 13:8 NASB)

"I the LORD do not change."  (Malachi 3:6 NASB)

"No prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God."  (2 Peter 1:20-21 NASB)

Cultural standards change.  The grass withers.  The flower fades.  What is popular today is gone tomorrow.  What we have known as truth is no longer recognized as such.  Even so, I know Whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day. (2 Timothy 1:12 KJV)



"Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith."  (1 Corinthians 16:13 NASB)