What about God? What about what he says to us?

Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light on my path (Psalm 119:105).

Your word, Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens (Psalm 119:89).

We live in a world of “this is what I think.” What about God? What about what he says to us? What about Christ? What about what he says to us? In today’s world, there are so many different opinions. One person says one thing. Someone else comes along and says something else. What are we to believe? Who are we to believe? If we listen to everyone who has something to say to us, it can get very confusing. We don’t know what to make it of all. Are we to give up on the search for truth? Are we to say that there’s no such thing as truth? Before we reach the conclusion that there is no such thing as truth, only a lot of different opinions, we might want to think about what the Psalmist says to us in Psalm 119. We are not left to stumble around in darkness, trying and failing to figure out what’s true and what’s not true. There is light that comes to us from God. This light is eternal light. It’s light that comes to us from heaven. This is what the Word of God says to us. Believing the Word of God shouldn’t make us speak as if we know it all and have all the answers. There are so many things that we don’t know. There are so many things that we don’t understand. What are we to do? Are we to retreat into silence? In 2 Corinthians 4:13, Paul says this, “We believe, and we shall speak.” How are we to speak? Here, we must learn to recognize that there’s a big difference between our own opinions and the Word of the Lord. Our faith is not in ourselves. It’s faith in the Lord. We don’t set our own opinions on the same level as the Word of the Lord. Sometimes, when we’re asked questions, we may have to say, “This is what I think” and “This is what the Word of the Lord says.” How does this work, saying, “This is what I think” and “This is what the Word of the Lord says.”? We tell people what the Lord says, and when we’re asked, “What does this mean?”, we do what we can to explain what the Word of God teaches, always recognizing that we do not fully understand all that God’s Word says to us. We should always remember the words of Acts 17:11, “Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.” We encourage people to be guided by God’s Word, “a lamp to our feet and a light on our path”, but we, also, encourage them to read God’s Word for themselves and discover the truth and power of God’s Word for themselves.