Candle of Truth

May 7

The days in which we live are evil. Certainly, this assertion could have been made at any time in history, but there seems to be an exacerbation of corruption, a rapid movement toward the acceptance of wickedness, in our time. Perhaps it appears that way because communication is swift—as the saying goes, news travels fast.

It seems we hardly absorb the report of a natural disaster or of an enemy attack upon our troops or a weather related calamity before the news of another is fast on its heels. We have become so inured to the onslaught of unpleasant information that we often put it out of our collective mind because our mind is already on ‘overload.’

How should we react to the unfortunate events that directly impact our world, our culture, our community, and often ourselves? How should we feel about the encroachment of foreign ideologies into our legal system? Or about the fall of the U.S. dollar? Or the thousand other concerns that are beamed into our homes daily?

I Thessalonians 5:21, 22 gives sound advice, “Test everything. Hold fast to the good. Avoid every kind of evil.” The world may be ready to succumb to the gross lies and injustices that are being perpetrated but we as believers in Jesus must hold all things before the candle of His absolute, unchanging truth—then hold truth with a secure grip.