Greetings to all, let us thank God for this new morning and the beginning of this new week. Let us ask Him for wisdom and to guide our thinking process so that we will do well. Amen
We are overwhelmed with so much noise in the form of news and social media. We are so confused and don't know what to believe.
As God's children, with each new day or beginnings, we trust in God for His unfailing love and His promises to be with us and protect us.
However, because we are fallible and not perfect, we make the mistake of trusting and following those around us who don't have the right view of Christ or those who do not confess the faith of Jesus Christ.
1 John 4:1-6 (GW)
1 Dear friends, don't believe all people who say that they have the Spirit. Instead, test them. See whether the spirit they have is from God, because there are many false prophets in the world.
2 This is how you can recognize God's Spirit: Every person who declares that Jesus Christ has come as a human has the Spirit that is from God.
3 But every person who doesn't declare that Jesus Christ has come as a human has a spirit that isn't from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist that you have heard is coming. That spirit is already in the world.
4 Dear children, you belong to God. So you have won the victory over these people, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
5 These people belong to the world. That's why they speak the thoughts of the world, and the world listens to them.
6 We belong to God. The person who knows God listens to us. Whoever doesn't belong to God doesn't listen to us. That's how we can tell the Spirit of truth from the spirit of lies.
Lesson: It's ok if we don't believe everything that we see or hear. We can overcome by using the gift of discerning to know what is real and false by walking with God and knowing His Word.
For "greater is He who is in you than He who is in the world."
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