The Devotional – The Value of Truth

The Devotional – The Value of Truth

Comment: Once several years ago my granddaughters and I were shopping for some candy for each of us. I decide on a rather large bag of chocolate covered peanuts. One of the girls replied, “Gramps that bag is too large for you, get the smaller one or you will make yourself sick!” In those days, she was not yet a teenager, today she is a mom. Nuggets of gold in our memory banks of life, yet we cannot go back and relive those days, but God has provided for all of us to DEPOSIT what is invested in time to His Glory. “Children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one’s youth. Happy is the man who has a quiver full of them, he shall not be ashamed”. (An excerpt from Psalms, Psalm 127:3-5a)

Devotional: In the days in which we live our ability to be a prospector for gold, silver and precious stones have all but faded into the wilderness. Now hear me on this, it is important! We have forgotten our Creator God; we have turned aside from His Way, each one of us to OUR OWN WAY. Some to idolatry, some to immorality and some to a combination of both. As a result, our national minds are corrupted with the false gods of greed and power. Nationally we worship animals and lustfully worship people of the same sex. Yet we are not so naïve are we, read Romans 1:32!

If you are not saved by grace through personal faith in Jesus Christ (Ephesian 2:8) then the thoughts in your heart about the above paragraph are boastful in that your WORKS are better than the gift God offers to each of us by grace (Ephesians 2:9). And you are still dead (stillborn if you will) in your trespasses and sins. Now we all were DEAD at one point in our trespasses and sins, but for those of us who are saved by grace through faith, God has made us alive in Him.

We are a workmanship of God, created in Christ Jesus for good works, works that are PREPARED by God Himself before time began that we should walk in those works. So what are these good works? Gold, silver and precious stones are these works which are impossible to have, if we are not abiding in Christ who is the Living Word, Jesus is the Holy Bible, He instructs us by the Holy Spirit (John 16:13). It is in the process of prospecting from the Word of God that He will provide in time the nuggets of gold produced by RIGHT Living.