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That’s exactly why our moral compass and standard of truth needs to be [into eternity]. Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day. You,
completely set and established on the truth of God’s word. We need to through Your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies, for [Your
trust and rely on God’s word to the point where no matter what the enemy words] are ever before me.... I have restrained my feet from every evil way,
does to contradict its truth, we refuse to believe him. We may have seen that I might keep Your word [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying it]. I
his evidence to prove God wrong, but we cannot be gullible enough to have not turned aside from Your ordinances, for You Yourself have taught
believe it. Satan is the father of lies and the master deceiver. He hates the me. How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my
Word of God so much because he has experienced first-hand the damage mouth! Through Your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every
it does to his kingdom when that word is alive and active inside a believer. false way. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”
We become an unstoppable force of faith and love and hope when we
choose to believe God’s Word is true and refuse to believe anything that No matter how the enemy has tried to convince you that God’s Word does
contradicts it! not work for you or that its principles are outdated, irrelevant and untrue,
don’t fall for his tricks of illusion! Don’t be gullible enough to fall for his
2 Samuel 22:31 says, “As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the Lord is deceptive lies. God’s Word is alive and true and is as relevant and pow-
tried.” I think this must be one of my favourite verses. In this world where erful today as the day He breathed Himself into it. There is no greater
there is so much uncertainty, there is an anchor for our souls that has been truth in this world, nor has there ever been or ever will be. And when all
proven, throughout all time, to be steadfast and true. It’s the written word things are said and done, everything we see today, will pass away, but
of God, illuminated by His Spirit, to our hearts and minds. God’s Word - that created everything that existed and sustained it - will
still remain, strong and true.
Deuteronomy 32:4 declares that God’s works are perfect and all His ways
are just, and that He is a God of faithfulness. You see, we can always de- It’s time for every believer to make our stand for its truth and let its life
pend on Him to honour His word in our lives. course through us, exposing the deceptive lies of the devil. It’s our pur-
pose to hold out its truth to all people and extend its freedom and hope
That’s why it’s so important for us to make His word our first priority. But to them. Just as it’s written in Philippians 2:15,16: “That you may show
I’m not just talking about the knowledge of the written word, I’m talking yourselves to be blameless and guileless, innocent and uncontaminated,
about going a step deeper. You see, in today’s world, it’s not enough to children of God without blemish (faultless, unrebukable) in the midst of
just know the word, we must be willing and diligent to apply its wisdom a crooked and wicked generation [spiritually perverted and perverse],
to our lives. When we do this, the power of God is activated in our lives among whom you are seen as bright lights (stars or beacons shining out
and as we hold on to its truth, being careful to do what it says, success clearly) in the [dark] world, holding out [to it] and offering [to all men] the
always comes. Word of Life...”

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obedience to God’s word is none of those things at all. It’s freedom. Free- this world.
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of God Himself. Because God honours His word above all else, He gave it
to us to make and keep us free and secure in this life.

James 4:8 puts it so beautifully: “For as the human body apart from the
spirit is lifeless, so faith apart from [its] works of obedience is also dead.”

David, in Psalm 119, knew exactly how necessary it was to know God’s
Word and place his complete trust in its truth. In the most terrifying and
confusing time of his life, it became His lifeline, his moral compass and an
anchor for his soul. Was David perfect? Of course not, but that doesn’t
negate the fact that the times he believed God’s Word and made it the
final authority of His life, it’s truth preserved him and caused great peace,
joy and blessing to flow in his life, in the midst of terror and destruction.

Look at what David said about God’s word in Psalm 119, while he was be-
ing pursued by enemies who were bent on his destruction.
“Forever, O Lord, Your word is settled in heaven [stands firm as the heav-
ens].... Unless Your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my
affliction. I will never forget Your precepts, [how can I?] for it is by them
You have quickened me (granted me life). I am Yours, therefore save me
[Your own]; for I have sought (inquired of and for) Your precepts and re-
quired them [as my urgent need].... I have seen that everything [human]
has its limits and end [no matter how extensive, noble, and excellent];
but Your commandment is exceedingly broad and extends without limits

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