Lighthouse Assembly
of God
Weekly Devotional
by Pastor Troy
LET'S TRY TO TELL THE TRUTH THIS TIME
Recently, via e-mail I've gotten some pretty interesting stuff. I've received an e-mail about how Vice President Gore meaning to say John 3:16 was his favorite Bible verse stated John 16:3 was. "And they will do this because they have not know the Father or me". The e-mail continued to poke fun at our Vice President and declare that the verse only points to the "truth" about him.
I also received an e-mail with a web link to a company called ID CHIP. It was a site proclaiming a computerized chip that could monitor health and be used like a credit card . It was ready to market and the first to sign up for it would receive a gift of two hundred and fifty dollars. I wondered what a company that wanted to "give" money wanted to know what your credit card number. Obviously, it didn't raise any eyebrows with Christians who were shocked to realize "the
end was near".
Today I got an e-mail from one of the saints in our congregation that links up to a web site proving Al Gore's statement was an Urban Legend or in other words: A LIE! I researched the ID CHIP company sending numerous emails to them and found out that there no ID CHIP. It was a fabricated site to generate publicity and to see how quickly paranoia can
create interest.
As Christians I think it's sad that we are more interested in OUR TRUTH rather than THE TRUTH! We love little demeaning tidbits that have no validity or integrity. Remember how Janet Reno basically called Christians cult members? Bunk! How about the hole they drilled in the earth that they could hear the sounds of hell in? Bunk! The world doesn't do half the damage to Christians as we do to ourselves! We talk about "truth" but when it comes to rumors and gossip we have no shred of integrity. Let's spread this around and make Janet Reno , Al GOre, or whoever we don't care for look stupid.
As followers of Christ our best representation is our testimony. We should spend more time praying for people who don't have our values or beliefs and less time misrepresenting them. If we believe the Bible to be the standard of absolute truth let us attempt to promote the content that it has within it! Let us avoid all Godless chatter for those who participate in it become more and more ungodly. (2Timothy 2:14-16)
Let us lift up Christ and encourage one another to good works. The end of the world and wickedness of man will be revealed in God's time, but not by our vain words.
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