On Guard

DEVOTION
1 TIMOTHY
ON GUARD
1 Tim 6:20-21
20 Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your care. Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge, 21 which some have professed and in so doing have wandered from the faith.
NIV
Some people surely think their intelligence thumps the truth of God, which is for sure. I know such individuals who think like that. It is not even worth the effort to try to have a conversation with them, for they only what to talk and not listen. I have been accused of that myself, but it is not true. I listen all too much, but I also want to talk. Most of the time I do think I might kind of turn them off, or tune them out for it is nothing more than godless chatter, and what they say surely opposes the word of God. Sure, their words are fine sounding and full of all kinds of human origins, but that is just it, human origins, not Godly. Why would I want to even listen to that kind of stuff, it is so much away from the truth? They oppose the Bible as even historic fact, but yet will believe what other men have written about history, even when those men write for personal gain. I cannot carry on a worthwhile conversation with such closed minded people who think they are intelligent but shut out anything which does not agree with their ideas. I guard myself even from some believers I know who have been deceived into thinking incorrectly. I know that sounds like I think I have the truth and they don’t and that sounds prideful. But I am not the only one who knows the truth; I am only one of so many who do. But there are some who have wandered into factions which believe some strange stuff. Too many rules and regulations placed by man upon man in order to be right. No, I am going to stick to the truth as it has been revealed to me by the Holy Spirit. I will refrain from accepting any so called truth taught by man. Moses, Isaiah, Jacob, David, Jeremiah, Matthew, Luke, John, Mark, Paul and so many others never attended any bible school or seminary, they were taught by the Holy Spirit. Was he replaced by someone professing to be a scholar? I think not. The Holy Spirit is the one who leads all men into the truth, which includes me. I think I shall take my stand, I think as though I am in a sword fight, and I hear the Holy Spirit telling me as I face my opponent, “On guard.”