CONCERT OF PRAYER
Pray Week 656

“Degrees of Separation”

2 Tim 3:16 (ESV) 16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God? may be competent, equipped for every good work

Romans 1:25 (ESV) 24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

John 14:6 (ESV) 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

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The field of Metrology is the science of precision measurement. Every device or instrument used to measure distance, time, frequency, color etc. can trace its calibration back to a primary or secondary standard. The degree of accuracy to which this device can be trusted to tell you the ‘truth’ is based upon its degrees of separation from the official one true primary standard.

It is one thing to be able to calibrate the truth of physical measurements. It is an entirely different matter when one desires to calibrate themselves against the truth about life, death, eternity, God, creation and so forth.

When does human life begin? Are we created by God or did we evolve by chance? Is there a God? Is there more to life than what we experience here on earth? Is there a heaven and a hell? How can I get to heaven? How can I just make it through today?

There are many contradictory voices competing for our attention, all claiming to have the answers and proclaiming to be speaking the truth. Even within the body of believers proclaiming to follow Jesus Christ we can find conflicting versions of what is the truth.

There is only one primary standard for the truth, and that is Jesus Christ who is the Living Word of God. Because of His obedience to the cross and His death and resurrection, we have access to the Father as His children through our acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. We do not have to calibrate ourselves against so called standards of truth that have been corrupted with hidden agendas, greed and selfish ambition. We can calibrate our lives directly against the One who is the way, the truth, and the life.

What ‘distance’ are you from the true standard for human beings, created in God’s own image?

How can one know what is the truth? Read God’s Word. Read the Bible for yourself asking the Holy Spirit to make the words and truths alive to you. Ask the Holy Spirit to give you the discernment to apply these truths in your life. Test what you hear from various preachers and teachers of God’s Word against the standard of God’s Word made dynamic for you by the Holy Spirit of God. Test all other texts that you read the same way. Reject modern day addendums and supplemental new revelations to the accepted Canon of Scripture of the Holy Bible. Become a part of a church body where the pure, whole Word of God is preached. Stay calibrated with the one True standard for living, today and for eternity. Stay calibrated to Jesus Christ.

Close in prayer, thanksgiving & rededication of your work to the glory of God