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Oh, send out Your light and Your truth!
Let them lead me;
Let them bring me to Your holy hill
And to Your tabernacle.
(Psalm 43:3)<\/p>\n
IN AN AGE WHEN IT\u2019S POPULAR FOR PEOPLE TO MAKE UP THEIR OWN SPIRITUALITY, IT\u2019S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THE VITAL ROLE OF TRUTH. If God is an objective reality, then neither He nor the path by which we may approach Him are matters of subjective opinion. We are not at liberty (1) to set the terms of our own salvation, or (2) to define anything as \u201cworship\u201d that suits our fancy.<\/p>\n
Yet this is the day of \u201cfeel good\u201d religion. When it comes to God\u2019s character, we envision Him in any way that is congenial to us, and when it comes to religious practice, we reject anything that does not stroke our self-image. Yet truth<\/em> is what we need, at all costs. Imagine yourself on the deck of the Titanic<\/em> as it began to sink. It might have made you feel better to be told the ship wasn\u2019t sinking and that everything was fine. But wouldn\u2019t the truth have been more valuable? As hard as it might have been to deal with reality, doing that would have been the only way to survive.<\/p>\n Spiritually, we are where we are right now because of \u201cdarkness.\u201d The distorted versions of reality that our adversary has presented to us have darkened our understanding to such an extent that we\u2019re incapable of finding our way back to God. The answer to David\u2019s question, \u201cWho can understand his errors?\u201d (Psalm 19:12), is that no one can \u2014 unless that person allows the light of God\u2019s truth to dispel the darkness and reveal the way back home. Our prayer ought to be the same as William Cowper\u2019s hymn: \u201cO for a closer walk with God, \/ A calm and heavenly frame, \/ A light to shine upon the road \/ That leads me to the Lamb!\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s a wonderful truth that God can be known, and an even more wonderful truth that we can be redeemed from our sins and brought back to Him. But our redemption won\u2019t be accomplished if we\u2019re not willing to know God as He truly is, and it\u2019s primarily in the language of the Scriptures<\/em> that He reveals Himself as He truly is. The only question is: what will we do<\/em> with this information?<\/p>\n \u201cThe sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God himself\u201d (A. W. Tozer).<\/p>\n Gary Henry \u2013 WordPoints.com + AreYouaChristian.com<\/p>\n