By Brad Campbell –

Just a thought to help start your week.

Do you believe everything you see or read?  Sadly, we can’t much anymore.  But there was a time when a man’s word meant something.  If the news media reported a story, it might contain honest mistakes, but you could rely on the meat of the story to be as accurate as possible.

Entirely too many people in today’s world believe everything that is posted on social media.  Too many folks take social media and even printed media to be the “gospel truth.”  Satan loves to talk to anyone who will listen, and he will take advantage of every opportunity to sneak his ideas, ideals, and lack of morality into our daily lives.  He wants us to believe it all and to trust none of it.  He is the author of confusion.

Recent surgeries and illnesses of dear family members have meant that my presence inside the hospital has been a daily occurrence.  On one such occasion, as patient and I watched the nurse get all the necessary equipment hooked up and started, this was the first blood pressure reading that the machine recorded!  “Alarm limit exceeded.”  Indeed!  Did we believe those numbers?  No.  They were “alarming” but not scary, because we knew not to believe what we were reading and seeing.  We knew the truth to be much better than what that particular moment showed us.

Let me tell you where you can believe everything you read — in God’s Word.  The Bible is the infallible, inerrant, indisputable, undeniable Word of the One Who died to save you from your sins, to provide you the only means of salvation, and to guarantee that as a blood-bought, forgiven, and saved child of God, you are guaranteed an eternity in His presence.  

You can bank on His Word.  You can believe it all.  There are certainly some passages in the Scriptures that will surprise and perhaps even alarm you, but know that it’s all Truth.  Read it, re-read it, and re-read it again.  Then share the truth you’ve read.

Just a thought.