Psalm 25 – Truth! Which truth?

Take me by the hand; Lead me down the path of truth. You are my Savior, aren’t you?

So you realise your way was no way and you have turned to God. Jesus warned that when we clean a house and leave it empty, the strongman will return with his whole gang and take it over again. So you need to very quickly fill it again. You have rejected the lie and now you need to fill it with truth.

Serious believers are constantly looking for more revelation of the truth. At the same time the church makes a fool of itself as so many different “truths’ are preached that it is confusing. The most mature Christians, the ones claiming superior revelation over all others, are often the first in line to grab the newest revelation. They are normally people who have not believed what they currently believe since they got saved but will be people who believed something else and have since changed their minds, maybe more than once. How then does the average Christian find and know the truth?

David asks the Lord to take him by the hand. If you want to know the truth you have to allow the Lord to teach you. It means trusting Him. It means change. It means Him holding you as truth challenges your life and belief systems. No more backing away from truth because that is not the way we always were. No more “I don’t know about that” because your church never taught it before. The fact that Jesus needs to hold your hand in the context of learning the truth means you are surely going to step out of your comfort zone.

Lord holding my hand lead me down the path of truth. So its a path, not just an lump sum. There is a direction, a purpose, a destination and getting there will be a journey. A journey God will guide you through, strengthening and encouraging you through tough patches of challenge and change, holding you in times of fear and carrying you through times of weakness. But all the way it is through the confines of truth. The Bible says He does this by His Word. His word lights the way for our feet and is the path we walk on. The super – spiritual Christian quotes verses all day, pretends to have all the knowledge as if they were born that way. The seeker searches the scriptures, reading, studying, meditating on them. Allowing each word to be a smooth paving stone upon which to tread.

You are my Saviour! It needs to be Jesus that does the leading. No man has the title or office or even ministry of saviour. It is Jesus alone who saved you and therefore He alone who has the truth. Prophets are as common as flies today. Apostles are on every corner. Preachers on every TV. Each one claiming freshest revelation in town. So today he preaches a piece of truth and tomorrow everybody is following him, quoting him and believing every word he says. Pulling their hand out of the  hand of Jesus and returning to being followers of men.

Jesus said “I am the way, the truth, the life” “if you keep my words you will know the truth” and gave us His Spirit to lead us in that truth.

Trust Him, follow Him, listen to His voice. You won’t go wrong

Psalm 24 – Armed and dangerous

Who is this King-Glory? GOD, armed and battle-ready.

When Jesus looked up to heaven and proclaimed “It is finished” he announced His victory to the world. At that moment he was armed and dangerous, ready to do battle for those who would call on His Name.

He was ready to lead His army across the earth and show every foe to be conquered. No longer a man on earth but a King returned to the glory He once left to fight the great battle to be Lord of all. Now all conquering, all powerful, all glorious, He waits to take His place amongst His people..

Here we are on earth struggling against sickness, poverty, the accusations of the law preachers, judgement by unbelievers, the lies of Satan, the attack of the enemy at every quarter. many are dying, falling away, losing faith. Others just accept that we have to persevere by faith until He comes again or He calls us to heaven.

What is it we are waiting for? Signs of end times? Great preachers to encourage us to hold on? Some new revelation of how to? 1000 years? Doomsday prophets to be accurate for once? Just what is it?

Is the Lord not yet ready? Is His throne not yet fully established? Is He waiting for better days?

Can’t be! He is ready to enter His church, all victorious. He needs do no more preparation.

All of creation eagerly awaits. However the Bible says it is awaiting the manifestation of the sons of God. It is eagerly waiting for you and I to stand up and be counted. To begin revealing the King of Glory to the World.

It seems it is us who are not ready. It is us keeping Him waiting. It is us keeping the world waiting.

Oh friend Jesus is the King of Glory. Jesus is armed and battle ready, ready to ride out on your behalf, ready to ride out to win the world. Ready to ride out to finally banish the unrighteous from the earth and drive every enemy into the fiery pit. He is waiting for you. Waiting for you to let Him come. Sure you have invited Him into your life as your saviour. Sure you call Him Lord. When will you allow yourself to manifest as a son? When will you invite Him to work through you that the world would see you armed and dangerous.

The Spirit and the Bride say come. When will we join them?