Let Us Proclaim His Truth!

January 25

In Deuteronomy 13:1-5, Moses says to the people:

"If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after other gods—which you have not known—and let us serve them, you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

"You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him. But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall put away the evil from your midst.”

Amos 8:11-14 further states:

"Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine on the land. Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD. They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the LORD, but shall not find it. In that day the fair virgins and strong young men shall faint from thirst. Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, who say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan and, as the way of Beersheba lives, they shall fall and never rise again."



The clear message conveyed by the Lord in each of these passages is that He carefully guards His Word and that He does not take lightly its mishandling by those who profess to know Him and understand Him.

We live in a day and age when the truth of Heaven is much questioned—if it is thought of at all—in a time where much liberty is taken with the truth on which our culture has long rested.

Our compromise has come about for varied reasons such as endeavoring to be tolerant of other world views as well as to mitigate our own concept of sin so we will not offend anyone who does not subscribe to Biblical teaching.

But no matter how cleverly we may rationalize, justify, sugar-coat our endeavor to transform the inerrant, steadfast Word of the Living God to make it compliant with the mindset of sinful man, His verdict for our mishandling of His truth remains the same—if we deny His Word, He shall deny us. If we destroy His truth, we shall ourselves be destroyed!

In this age of delusion and deceit, at this time of blatant disregard for all that is holy; as we see unprecedented evil unleashed by godless men whose way is the way of Baal, may we who call upon Christ alone for our salvation resolve to be steadfast in our love for and service to Him. May we know no other gods before the One who sits upon the circle of the earth and in whose sight men are mere grasshoppers (see Isaiah 40:22).

May we not be as those who “wander from sea to sea…seeking the Word of the Lord,” or as those dreamers of dreams or like those dreamers of dreams who falsify His Truth, or as those dreamers of dreams who deserve death for their abrogation of His Holy Truth!

No! Let us be among those who cherish Jesus our Savior, the Living Word of our Eternal God! Let us not be in the number of those who espouse death above life through their denial of the One who has died to set them free from sin and death.

Let us hold fast to Jesus, “the Author and Finisher of our faith,” Hebrews 12:2, and let us proclaim His truth as long as He gives us breath!