Likewise Dear Heavenly Father, shall I not drink in the providential cup You have placed in my pathway. Help me Dear Lord Jesus to do it without murmur or complaint.
John 18:37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered; Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. (KJV)There is but one truth and He is Jesus Christ. When a person sincerely and earnestly desires the truth, God the Holy Spirit (who is the Spirit of Truth) will lead that soul to the only truth in existence Jesus Christ. In the past, today, and in the future people all over the world want to know truth. Often they hear convoluted messages from so called spiritual gurus telling them that truth is relative and that you can make your own truth and many other foolish notions. However, in the human heart God has placed an urgency to find out the truth. There is restlessness in every soul devoid of the truth, a quiet desperation that cannot be silenced with any band aid of supposed truth. Only the real thing will suffice. We all know that 1 + 1 = 2. Is that true in India? Is it true in China? The answer is yes of course it is true everywhere. Cannot gravity be proved to be true anywhere upon the earth? Sure, then truth is truth and there is not more than one truth. It is by the truth found in Jesus Christ and His Word that those who belong to Him are made different upon the earth. 2 Corinthians 5:17 So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new. (BBE) The love of the truth is what followers of Jesus Christ desire and in Him only it is found. What you believe and who you believe will determine how you live. For example, the people who believed Adolph Hitler murdered people because they acted out their internal belief. Jesus Christ voice resonates through His Word and calls all people everywhere who seek truth to Himself. Psalm 96:13 Before the LORD: for He cometh, for He cometh to judge the earth: He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth. (KJV) “Every sincere lover of truth will hear him, so as to understand and practise what he saith.” By John Wesley
Jude 1:24 “Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy” (KJV)
In some sense the path to heaven is very safe, but in other respects there is no road so dangerous. It is beset with difficulties. One false step (and how easy it is to take that if grace be absent), and down we go. What a slippery path is that which some of us have to tread! How many times have we to exclaim with the Psalmist, “My feet were almost gone, my steps had well-nigh slipped.” If we were strong, sure-footed mountaineers, this would not matter so much; but in ourselves, how weak we are! In the best roads we soon falter, in the smoothest paths we quickly stumble. These feeble knees of ours can scarcely support our tottering weight. A straw may throw us, and a pebble can wound us; we are mere children tremblingly taking our first steps in the walk of faith, our heavenly Father holds us by the arms or we should soon be down. Oh, if we are kept from falling, how must we bless the patient power which watches over us day by day! Think, how prone we are to sin, how apt to choose danger, how strong our tendency to cast ourselves down, and these reflections will make us sing more sweetly than we have ever done, “Glory be to him, who is able to keep us from falling.” We have many foes who try to push us down. The road is rough and we are weak, but in addition to this, enemies lurk in ambush, who rush out when we least expect them, and labour to trip us up, or hurl us down the nearest precipice. Only an Almighty arm can preserve us from these unseen foes, who are seeking to destroy us. Such an arm is engaged for our defence. He is faithful that hath promised, and he is able to keep us from falling, so that with a deep sense of our utter weakness, we may cherish a firm belief in our perfect safety, and say, with joyful confidence,
“Against me earth and hell combine,But on my side is power divine;
Jesus is all, and he is mine!”
By Charles H. Spurgeon
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