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Technorati“Show me Your ways, O Lord,
Teach me Your paths;
Guide me in Your truth and teach me
For You are God my Saviour.”
Psalm 25: 4
N. I.V.
EXPLORATION
“A God Who Is Truthful”
“Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself.”
St. Augustine
Do I believe what God says is the “Truth”?
“Truth is the daughter of God.”
Thomas Fuller
INSPIRATION
“If we hold on to God’s truth, we won’t be trapped by Satan’s lies.”
Author Unknown
Several weeks ago, someone called to give me a piece of “information” they deemed vital. As they passed on this juicy tidbit they qualified their remarks by saying, “What I’m telling you is REALLY the truth.” I underscore the word “really” because they placed such emphasis on the word.
Just a few days later, I received another call, from a very reliable source who completely contradicted the information I had received days before.
Now I faced a dilemma! Two people, both claiming to be telling me the truth, related stories which were miles apart. I asked myself, “Who am I to believe?” I knew the truth was hidden somewhere, but I wasn’t certain of its exact location.
Has the same thing ever happened to you? I’m certain it has for without a doubt we have all faced a junction in our lives when two divergent versions of the truth have come together to confuse and deceive us.
And lest you think this phenomenon has reared its ugly head in the 21st century, I’d like to take you back to a garden paradise where we met God’s first daughter, Eve. She was the first woman we studied this year. Living in a perfect garden home, you might think conflicting stories would be impossible to concoct, but you’d be wrong. In Genesis 2: 16, 17, God gave this instruction: “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”
Yet some time later, we find Eve standing at the tree of knowledge of good and evil beguiled by a dazzling, talking serpent who informed her in no uncertain terms, “Ye shall not surely die” (Genesis 3: 1-4, K.J.V.).
There you have it. Two very different views on the truth. And I ask you again, “Who does a girl believe?” Unfortunately, you and I know all too well the sad events which took place when Eve chose to follow the wrong version of what was claimed to be “the truth.”
After being banished from their perfect home, ashamed and heartbroken, it didn’t take long for Adam and Eve to discern what the real truth was. When they watched their sons, Cain and Abel, choose two different versions of truth, “my truth” and “God’s truth,” they cried out in horror as they saw the result that sin does cause death as Cain put his own personal version of the truth before God’s and in hate murdered his brother, whom God honored for obedience.
Time moves forward. The children of Israel are held under the bondage of a “new serpent,” the Pharaoh of Egypt. And God laid out truth to Pharaoh, but instead Pharaoh chose to follow his own version of truth. And again, death was the result.Continue »
Dorothy Valcarcel has a 25-year career working with charitable organizations worldwide. Her experiences have taken her into ghettos, orphanages, domestic abuse shelters and food kitchens. The insight she gained, along with her own personal struggle to overcome challenging disabilities sustained in a life-threatening accident, are the catalyst for Transformation Garden - a website designed to encourage women in their walk with Jesus. Dorothy is the author of the soon to be released book, When A Woman Meets Jesus, published by Revell.
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