Daily Ponder

Verse For The Day

“Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.” (2 Peter 1:4)

Short Devotional Thought
Our Daily Devotional:

Seeking His Truth

2 Timothy 4:3-4 NIV: For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

Ever wonder why it is that the Bible changes over time? Of course that is not true. God´s Word remains constant. What changes are the eyes through which the scripture is viewed—the minds in which the scripture is interpreted. Does it make sense to us to consider the interpretation of generations of Christians gone by as being interpretations that have missed the mark? What makes us believe our generation knows better than they? Truth be told, there is much interpretation being done that is heavily influenced by selfish desire and societal influence. I once heard a woman refer to Paul as a chauvinist. Could her viewpoints of Paul´s letters possibly have been clouded by societal influence? Most likely so. As we approach God´s Word, we must be willing to abandon all we think we know and discover His Truth as His Spirit would reveal it. We cannot let the world around us dictate how God´s Word should be understood; but we must let God´s Word be the measure by which we understand the world.