Tuesday 1 Mar 2022

March 1: Psalm 89:1-4

Key Verse: Psalm 89:2
I will declare that your love stands firm for ever, that you have established your faithfulness in heaven itself.

Devotion:
How much of the news do you believe? We hear two different stories coming in about the war in Ukraine; we hear the Russian side which says everything is going as planned, and we hear the Western side which says nothing is going to plan… so who do we believe? I would like to believe the Western Media is getting us the truth, but I have been deceived by the Western Press a few too many times to believe everything they say!

Are we going to be seen in that light when we present the gospel to people, or are they going to see us as people who are doing everything we can to make sure the truth is presented above all? Jesus wants us to tell people the truth and to allow Him to work in their hearts instead of us trying to do so. When we try too hard to tell people to believe in what we have to say, it normally comes over as us bending the truth or covering it up in some way… because we live in a world of deceit and mistrust!

The apostles must have had a very difficult time trying to get people to listen to them. They were fighting against the religious leaders at the time – the leaders who had been deceiving the people for so long, they had started to believe the lies… or the half truths!

God wants us to present the whole truth and not to try to make people believe. He wants people to hear the truth so they will be able to find out what God has done in the past and what He promises to do in the future. We should allow God to open peoples hearts and not try to do it ourselves. When we try, things go wrong...

Points to Ponder:
How do you tell people the truth?

Will you use the same method to tell people the gospel?