What do you believe? Where do you get your most dependable information? Is it on social media? Is it on national news broadcasts? Do you have your favorite internet news source? How do determine if the news source you choose is reliable?
We can get news from more sources than we can count. There are several television channels dedicated to news. There are news feeds on social media. There are news websites. There are news podcasts. The challenge is to find news sources we know we can trust.
Ensuring we trust the right sources is very important. If we believe the wrong sources, we become misinformed, misguided, and ultimately fail to live in the truth. The truth can be hard to decipher in today’s world. Even hearing news from our family and friends has become suspect, simply because we don’t know where they got their information.
There is one source for truth we can trust. That is the Bible. We should trust the truth within it as God’s Word. As the Apostle Paul tells the church in Thessalonica, trusting its message as God’s Word and being believers is not a matter of human understanding. It is the Holy Spirit that guides us in the truth of the Bible.
We have been given the gift of the Holy Spirit to be our teacher. He will help us to properly interpret God’s Word, if we will seek his guidance. If we rely on our own interpretation, we run the risk of misinterpreting it. Having the Holy Spirit help us is a matter of us asking for his guidance and getting used to listening for his voice. It may take a little time, but it will happen if we are persistent in it.
I pray we all seek the truth of God’s Word. I pray we ask the Holy Spirit to help us interpret it. I pray each one of us will learn to listen for the Holy Spirit to speak to us and follow his guidance. Seek the truth. Read God’s Word. Ask the Holy Spirit for help. Know the Holy Spirit will help interpret. Follow his guidance.
1 Thessalonians 2:13 We also constantly give thanks to God for this, that when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word but as what it really is, God’s word, which is also at work in you believers.
Marty Pressey 