Inconvenient Truth?

We live in the Post Modern Age -so we are told. Truth is relative."It's all a matter of perspective." We cannot be absolutely sure about anything-except that there are no absolutes! How different and encouraging a picture we get from Scripture. The God Who is Himself truth has come to us in Jesus. It is a fact. He has given us the truth in His Word. What do we do with it? It is to be believed , lived , fellowshipped in and shared! The following from Spurgeon's "Morning and Evening" says it a lot better than I can.

"For the truths sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with
us for ever."
-- 2:John 2

Once let the truth of God obtain an entrance into the human heart and
subdue the whole man unto itself, no power human or infernal can
dislodge it. We entertain it not as a guest but as the master of the
house-this is a Christian necessity, he is no Christian who doth not
thus believe. Those who feel the vital power of the gospel, and know
the might of the Holy Ghost as he opens, applies, and seals the Lord's
Word, would sooner be torn to pieces than be rent away from the gospel
of their salvation. What a thousand mercies are wrapped up in the
assurance that the truth will be with us for ever; will be our living
support, our dying comfort, our rising song, our eternal glory; this is
Christian privilege, without it our faith were little worth. Some
truths we outgrow and leave behind, for they are but rudiments and
lessons for beginners, but we cannot thus deal with Divine truth, for
though it is sweet food for babes, it is in the highest sense strong
meat for men. The truth that we are sinners is painfully with us to
humble and make us watchful; the more blessed truth that whosoever
believeth on the Lord Jesus shall be saved, abides with us as our hope
and joy. Experience, so far from loosening our hold of the doctrines of
grace, has knit us to them more and more firmly; our grounds and
motives for believing are now more strong, more numerous than ever, and
we have reason to expect that it will be so till in death we clasp the
Saviour in our arms.

Wherever this abiding love of truth can be discovered, we are bound to
exercise our love. No narrow circle can contain our gracious
sympathies, wide as the election of grace must be our communion of
heart. Much of error may be mingled with truth received, let us war
with the error but still love the brother for the measure of truth
which we see in him; above all let us love and spread the truth
ourselves.

Our Servant King

We have been called the "me" generation. In truth however the Bible says that every generation is the "me " generation. The amazing truth that the Bible teaches us that God has come to serve those who refuse to serve Him or each other. Christianity is the ultimate counter cultural movement. Yet even Christians can -and do- drift back to the "me first" default of our sinful nature. In Christ's amazing gesture at the Last Supper -on the eve of Calvary - we have a startling and poignant reminder of what we ought to be about. Here is Surgeons thoughts from this evenings devotional. Read, be challenged, think and change!


"He began to wash the disciples' feet."
-- John 13:5

The Lord Jesus loves his people so much, that every day he is still
doing for them much that is analogous to washing their soiled feet.
Their poorest actions he accepts; their deepest sorrow he feels; their
slenderest wish he hears, and their every transgression he forgives. He
is still their servant as well as their Friend and Master. He not only
performs majestic deeds for them, as wearing the mitre on his brow, and
the precious jewels glittering on his breastplate, and standing up to
plead for them, but humbly, patiently, he yet goes about among his
people with the basin and the towel. He does this when he puts away
from us day by day our constant infirmities and sins. Last night, when
you bowed the knee, you mournfully confessed that much of your conduct
was not worthy of your profession; and even tonight, you must mourn
afresh that you have fallen again into the selfsame folly and sin from
which special grace delivered you long ago; and yet Jesus will have
great patience with you; he will hear your confession of sin; he will
say, "I will, be thou clean"; he will again apply the blood of
sprinkling, and speak peace to your conscience, and remove every spot.
It is a great act of eternal love when Christ once for all absolves the
sinner, and puts him into the family of God; but what condescending
patience there is when the Saviour with much long-suffering bears the
oft recurring follies of his wayward disciple; day by day, and hour by
hour, washing away the multiplied transgressions of his erring but yet
beloved child! To dry up a flood of rebellion is something marvellous,
but to endure the constant dropping of repeated offences-to bear with a
perpetual trying of patience, this is divine indeed! While we find
comfort and peace in our Lord's daily cleansing, its legitimate
influence upon us will be to increase our watchfulness, and quicken our
desire for holiness. Is it so?

The Dangerous Deception of Unbelief.

Have you ever just crumbled? I mean after fighting the fight for what seems forever you just feel it's no use going on? David felt like that. He felt that his enemy's persistent relentless hounding of him must end in his defeat. He was wrong! So are we when we give in to this temptation. Why? Because we factor out the most vital ingredient of all; the promises of God . Here is what Spurgeon had to say . It is taken from his "Morning & Evening " devotional.

"And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by
the hand of Saul."
1: Samuel 27:1

The thought of David's heart at this time was a false thought, because
he certainly had no ground for thinking that God's anointing him by
Samuel was intended to be left as an empty unmeaning act. On no one
occasion had the Lord deserted his servant; he had been placed in
perilous positions very often, but not one instance had occurred in
which divine interposition had not delivered him. The trials to which
he had been exposed had been varied; they had not assumed one form
only, but many-yet in every case he who sent the trial had also
graciously ordained a way of escape. David could not put his finger
upon any entry in his diary, and say of it, "Here is evidence that the
Lord will forsake me," for the entire tenor of his past life proved the
very reverse. He should have argued from what God had done for him,
that God would be his defender still. But is it not just in the same
way that we doubt God's help? Is it not mistrust without a cause? Have
we ever had the shadow of a reason to doubt our Father's goodness? Have
not his lovingkindnesses been marvellous? Has he once failed to justify
our trust? Ah, no! our God has not left us at any time. We have had
dark nights, but the star of love has shone forth amid the blackness;
we have been in stern conflicts, but over our head he has held aloft
the shield of our defence. We have gone through many trials, but never
to our detriment, always to our advantage; and the conclusion from our
past experience is, that he who has been with us in six troubles, will
not forsake us in the seventh. What we have known of our faithful God,
proves that he will keep us to the end. Let us not, then, reason
contrary to evidence. How can we ever be so ungenerous as to doubt our
God? Lord, throw down the Jezebel of our unbelief, and let the dogs
devour it.