Love you all, praying for you,
I just love God’s Word, it makes you think, it challenges you, it is the ultimate decider of good and bad, right and wrong, wisdom and foolishness, truth and lie. It gives wisdom for living, wisdom for thinking, wisdom for speaking, wisdom for believing. Proverbs 25:2 – It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, to search out a matter is the glory of kings. Two things are hidden and two people hide things. God conceals things that are meant for us to discover. Like playing hide and seek with your Daddy, who hides where you can find him, or Mom and Dad who hide Easter eggs where their toddlers can discover them. God hides things to teach us to search for them. It is the glory of God – what is glory? Weightiness, that which makes one impressive, admirable, respectable, that which brings honor, that which indicates quality and excellence, that which is the reason for the highest level of reputation. It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, it’s part of what makes Him Holy and Righteous and Honorable and Loving. Things He has hidden are for us to discover if we seek Him first, and His truth next. The best fruit is not laying on the ground, nor in reach of any passerby. The best fruit is up in the tree, yet to be discovered… it requires some climbing. The devil also conceals things... so we don't discover; he always hides truth, not for us to find It, but to prevent us from finding it. He is the father of lies, a liar from the beginning, always hiding, and deceiving, twisting, and lying. God says when the devil lies, he speaks his native language. He will always deceive, pervert and hide truth, so you believe a lie, so your life can be cursed instead of blessed. God’s glory is to conceal a matter, your glory is to search it out. Climb a little, be diligent in your due diligence in discovery. Not being naïve, easily swayed by every wind of doctrine that drifts by. So if your glory is to search it out… How glorious are you? How diligent are you to discover who God is, and be with Him, so He can reveal those things He has hidden? How diligent are you to know Him through His Word, so the words of the enemy have no grip on you, so you can see through them like you see yourself in the mirror? How diligent are you to search out the truth that the devil has hidden – when everyone around you believes the lies? First - PRISM – those five things you can do in God’s Word every day – is the key, the starting point - to seeking God so you can know truth. It’s the foundation of searching things out. Because it is the framework by which you can sift through and discern between truth and lie. Second, your commitment search out truth beyond just the information that is disseminated around you. Not every textbook tells the truth, just like not every newspaper article tells the truth. Sources of information can inform you or deform you - it's up to you to seek God on which sources to choose - what you allow to influence you. There are matters that God hides and there are matters the devil hides. The devil will hide truth be promoting false, God will never do that. He does leave some things unspoken here, but spoken there, to teach us to search out and connect the dots. It's the effort to do this that grows us, and draws us to Him. Because God is truth, so the pursuit of truth is the pursuit of Him. God said there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed. God will however, if people refuse to believe the truth, He will let them believe a lie. Romans 1:21 - For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God, nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and their foolish hearts were darkened. Ephesians 4:17 - So I tell you this, and insist on it in the LORD, that you must no longer walk as the other nations walk in the futility of their minds. Their minds are full of darkness; they wander far from the life God gives because they have closed their minds and hardened their hearts against him. That's why God says it's important to search out a matter, so you do not become hardened by untruth. For you to have weightiness, honor, the reputation that God wants for His children, God says – it is your glory to search out a matter. Whether things of the Spirit, the things of heaven and eternity, or the things of this world that we live in that God says we are to be “in” but not “of.” Praying that you will understand and pursue both the glory of God and the things He has hidden for you to discover. That you will pursue truth in the sea of lies of the culture you live in. Praying that God will increase His glory in you, and the glory and weightiness of you – as you fulfill your God given responsibility to search out a matter, to seek the truth, so you can think and speak and act accordingly. That you can influence others to walk in truth, so lies and deception have no impact and no hold over you. Praying that God’s glory will be revealed to you – in ways that not everyone can see, because you climb the tree. Praying that God will bring honor to you, because your diligence in searching it out by His Spirit becomes diligence in discernment. Not only like Stephen, who saw things as they are in Heaven, but also like the men of Issachar who understood the times, and knew what the people of God should do. Praying that PiVAT has you obeying, that PRISM has you knowing and believing and discerning, that your Daily Call has you overcoming, and that your glory is increasing because you are discovering more and more – of the glory of the One and Only, True and Loving, Faithful, Just, and Merciful God. Love you all, dad
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